The Web has changed the economics of the newspaper business, but it doesn’t have to mean the end of newspapers just the end of the business as it is currently conducted. Wireless can do for newspapers what it is already in the process of doing for books. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst Tom Wheeler explains how wireless e-readers allow newspapers to control which information goes over their proprietary network to their own wireless devices and what information goes on the Web for general consumption.
– At a recent meeting of the Associated Press, newspaper owners bemoaned how the Internet ruined their business. Bankruptcies, quot;For Sale quot; signs, staff cuts and even shutdowns are today’s headlines. The cover of Time magazine recently featured a dead fish wrapped in a newspaper. quot;It is n…