With electronics and the internet so prevalent in this day and age what lifespan do you give traditional print media. Not really talking about books since I believe they'll be around for quite a while to come - more talking about magazines and news papers. With news so easily available everywhere online and for free what incentive is there to keep buying print newspapers? Obviously the providers will keep making them as long as they keep selling but surely their days are numbered. Maybe it's just the later generations who still read print but enough that it stays afloat? Maybe some people just like a physical copy more? What do you think.

Then there's magazines and they're a completely different game. With some many forums and communities and content sources around the place you can easily get a steady stream of high quality, relevant (and often original) content related to whatever you want. How long do speciality magazines have left? You know the ones, those that you see in news agents. One issue a month full of all sorts of stuff about one specific topic like bikes or cars or fishing.

Is there any benefit to these (other than personal preference/anecdotal)? I guess they can used when there is no internet connection but even then pages and content can be cached etc etc and more and more people have internet while out and about anyway. Share your thoughts.

This thread is part of my initiate to start some non terrible (sorry but it's true) threads in offtopic that will hopefully contain some actual discussion. Don't shit it up.