Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? Newspaper Web sites have been so popular that at some newspapers, including The New York Times, the number of people who read the paper online now surpasses the number who buy the print edition.
This migration of readers is beginning to transform the newspaper industry.
History Is Going, Going, Gone When all our documents are generated by digital means, the nature of what consists of an "original" becomes fuzzier and fuzzier. [...]
But accessing documents only electronically means that we lose the thrill of viewing and touching the actual papers handled by the geniuses and artists who created them. Actual contact with the physical objects that helped shape an industry that will forever shape us is, well, priceless.
