Newspapers are unfortunately a dying breed. I could certainly see them making a marginal comeback in the next 5 years due to the retirement of baby boomers. However, newspapers are on their way out. Senior Americans are not as open to the use of technology as the younger(30 and down) generation. They're also not as apt to want to take the time to learn about a new piece of software, when they can sit down with their coffee, at their kitchen table, and open up the their newsPAPER. That's they way they've done it for years and they don't want that to change.
E-readers are soon going to become the mainstream way of getting your news, minus the paper part. Particularly the reader that updates itself. This way you can carry the paper with you and watch it through something small like your eyeglasses, and not have to carry something separate. In spite of all of this, I can't help but wonder if the e-reader will really be that popular due to iPads and smartphones. You can already get your news quickly updated and play a game and look at photos and play words with friends on an iPad. With your smartphone you could be taking a business call, texting your spouse, and checking the news and it's all in one, easy to use, easy to transport, gadget. Therefore, I'm not so sure that the e-reader will be a huge success. Why would you pay $800 for something that doesn't do as much as it's $250 counterpart?
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