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==Description==
==Description==


Actually, the threat of E-newspaper already exists. It is said that more and more people will be used to online reading, which means the reduction of sale.  Moreover, the recent global “financial storm” causes all the markets depressing including the newspaper industry. In such a bad time, it is very hard for the companies to survive. The reduction of company costs becomes a key factor to determine the destiny of a company. Using the way of online news is able to diminish the cost dramatically. The cost of printing and publishing the newspaper vanishes in this way. Therefore, the innovation of shifting the traditional published newspaper to the E-form newspaper is the trend of times. As a good example, “Washington Post” and “The New York Times” have already stared the business of online reading. Recently, “The Christian Science Monitor” claims that they will stop publishing the printed newspaper from April, 2009 and only publish the online version.
It is said that more and more people will be used to online reading, which means the reduction of sale.  Moreover, in such a bad time, it is very hard for the companies to survive. The reduction of company costs becomes a key factor to determine the destiny of a company. On the other hand, the online news and E-newspaper is able to diminish the cost dramatically. The cost of printing and publishing the newspaper vanishes in this way. In order to compete with these new forms of business, how to save the cost is the main issue for the traditional newspaper companies. Maybe the innovation of shifting the traditional published newspaper to the E-form newspaper is the trend of times.  
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==Enablers==
==Enablers==
#Territorial disputes - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Afghan War (part of America’s world-wide War on Terrorism); War on Terrorism (Any place, where the USA suspect there is a terrorist presence);<br>
#More and more serious competition causes the reduction of the prices.
#Terrorist Acts - U.S. Embassy Bombings –(August 8, 1998); Attack on the USS Cole - (October 12, 2000); Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - ( September 11, 2001); Tunisian Synagogue Bombing - (April 11, 2002); Bali Bombing —(Oct. 12, 2002); and many others...<br>
#The recent global “financial storm” causes all the markets depressing including the newspaper industry.
#Ethnic Intolerance - Hindu-Muslim Sectarian Violence—(1947-Present); Kashmir Conflict — (1991-Present); China-Tibet (2008)<br>
#The appearance of E-newspaper and online business will threaten the status of traditional newspaper. For the cost, the traditional newspaper has no competence compared with the other two forms.
#Human rights violations - Kosovo War — (1998-1999); Israeli Occupation of Southern Lebanon –(1982-2000);
 
#Natural resources - Iraq - Kuwait conflict; (All USA interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan?).
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==Inhibitors==
==Inhibitors==
#The group of people who is used to read the newspaper by the traditional way.
#Considering the profit, there is not much space for those newspaper companies to reduce the price. New form of business should be investigated.  
#The immature market of E-newspaper prevents its popularity.
#It is still too early to conclude if the online news and E-newspaper is a successful solution. They are the most motivations to make the newspaper lower the price.
#The recent global “financial storm” causes all the markets depressing including the newspaper industry.
 
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==Paradigms==
==Paradigms==
#“Washington Post” and “The New York Times” have already stared the business of online reading.  
“The Christian Science Monitor” claims that they will stop publishing the printed newspaper from April, 2009 and only publish the online version.
 
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#“The Christian Science Monitor” claims that they will stop publishing the printed newspaper from April, 2009 and only publish the online version.
 
==Web Resource==
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1029/p25s01-usgn.html

Latest revision as of 02:08, 7 May 2009

Author

Ying Hua

Description

It is said that more and more people will be used to online reading, which means the reduction of sale. Moreover, in such a bad time, it is very hard for the companies to survive. The reduction of company costs becomes a key factor to determine the destiny of a company. On the other hand, the online news and E-newspaper is able to diminish the cost dramatically. The cost of printing and publishing the newspaper vanishes in this way. In order to compete with these new forms of business, how to save the cost is the main issue for the traditional newspaper companies. Maybe the innovation of shifting the traditional published newspaper to the E-form newspaper is the trend of times.

Enablers

  1. More and more serious competition causes the reduction of the prices.
  2. The recent global “financial storm” causes all the markets depressing including the newspaper industry.
  3. The appearance of E-newspaper and online business will threaten the status of traditional newspaper. For the cost, the traditional newspaper has no competence compared with the other two forms.


Inhibitors

  1. Considering the profit, there is not much space for those newspaper companies to reduce the price. New form of business should be investigated.
  2. It is still too early to conclude if the online news and E-newspaper is a successful solution. They are the most motivations to make the newspaper lower the price.


Paradigms

“The Christian Science Monitor” claims that they will stop publishing the printed newspaper from April, 2009 and only publish the online version.


Web Resource

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1029/p25s01-usgn.html

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