Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The future of Magazines.....and Newsagents

With the green movement being all pervasive. Is the Newsagency dead? If we stop using paper for glossy magazines how else will we get our fix? One way might be via the Internet through sites like Zinio.


Have a look and you will see magazines you can buy at the newsagent today. the first thing you will notice is the price is substantially less. Click on the "Try It!" near a magazine and you will get a download of the covers, contents and a few pages. Roll your mouse over the top right hand corner and you will see a cool way of turning the pages, just like the real thing.


So if this is the way magazines are going how will the corner newsagent survive?


Selling Lottery tickets and stationary items is one way as well as the upbiqutous Birthday and Xmas cards. One thing is for sure in 10 years time a newsagent will look a lot different to what it does today. Maybe you will walk in and dock your iPod like device, in the special News dispenser, to get the daily newspaper to carry to work on the train. Of course you will buy an instant lottery ticket, hoping to win, so you can afford the fuel for the trip back home from the station that night.


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