“And all of us are very worried about how newspapers are going to survive in the next few years if we don’t see any turnaround in the economy,” Fidler said.
Whether or not the situation is ultimately hopeless, newspapers and magazines now find themselves weighing offers of aid from outsiders. When asked at the debut of the Kindle 2 in February whether the Kindle could help the print media, Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, said he thought there were “genuine opportunities” to save journalism.
“And we’re excited about helping with that,” he added.
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