Newspapers are dead! Long live… newspapers? There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the publishing industry, as newspapers grapple with declining circulations and flatlining classified ad revenues. However, the Associated Press reckons one solution may be the iPhone.
It’s announced plans to launch a news service called Mobile News Network, which will carry stories from local newspapers in the US, as well as national and international news from the AP itself. Advertising revenues will be shared out, and while it’s being designed for the iPhone, it’ll run on other smartphones too.
Surely someone should be working on a similar idea here in the UK? Apart from the BBC, I mean. It’d be good to see local newspapers here banding together for some kind of mobile-friendly service, maybe tied in with a larger provider of national news. Heaven knows who’d run it, mind, and divvy out the revenues. But still, at a time when print is a scarier place than it used to be, the iPhone and similar devices could offer one way out.
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