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The reports of print’s death may not be exaggerated

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Death throesDesigner Jason Santa Maria takes a look at the current state of print publishing and decides:

  1. Print just might be in its death throes
  2. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

Here’s his conclusion:

The medium of print will not die, but its spot atop the mountain of mainstream content distribution is in its final days. This could bring about a rebirth of design innovation online. We can help bring about change and find new ways to connect with audiences. This is an exciting time to be a designer, assuming we can all hang onto our jobs long enough to see what happens.

The post itself is a nice Cliff’s Notes to the Resolved: Print May Not Be Dead, But It Certainly Has A Nasty Wet Cough And A Certain Yellow Tinge Around The Eyes crowd. But the comments are even more interesting as Jason and his readers offer the kinds of astute observations about print and digital that it took newspapers 12 years to make.

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  1. The relative value of the print medium will continue to erode as the premium on credible, reliable and thoughtful content erodes compared to the fast, free wisdom of crowds. When the true story isn’t interesting enough to cover in authentic detail then there is little future for news print. The culture has grown so accepting of
    e-rban legend that there is a cottage industry dedicated to debunking the fantasies. The issue is not a technological one, it is of course as many have said, a social one being accelerated by the technology. When people say “content is king,” there is rarely mention of quality, only of speed to refresh. In short, Ryan Seacrest is the modern Walter Cronkite and it’s not clear that he can write at all.