The critical state of the declining newspaper industry is well-known and well-documented. The continuing expansion of alternative media has taken both revenue and readership from conventional printed newspapers for some time now. Scrambling to staunch the bleeding, newspaper publishers have explored various means to secure incremental...

In the face of increasing competition from alternative media, newspapers have been struggling for survival for some time as both subscriber and advertising revenues continue to shrink. Newspaper printers have sought multiple solutions to cut costs ranging from switching to lighter weight paper to garnering incremental revenue in the...

A colleague recently asked me if I thought that the continued emergence of e-paper would mean the demise of traditional printing, particularly offset. “No way!” I responded. And that answer stands, although on reflection it is not really that simple. Although e-paper uses the terminology “paper” and “electronic...