Back in July, the Philadelphia Media Network announced it was going to try to boost the sales of its papers by associating them with a tablet. We now know exactly what that tablet will be. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News will sell the Arnova 10 G2 tablet at a discount if purchasers agree to a to either a one or two year subscription to the newspaper applications.

Well this is interesting. Just a couple of days ago, I wrote a post concerning the radio and where it is headed. At Google I/O, some pretty interesting figures were released. We have all known that the internet was growing at an alarming rate, and that because of this growth, many old media companies are more »

Newspapers aren’t faring too well. We all know that. The options lately seem to be close the paper, hope ebook readers and/or the Apple Tablet can save the industry, or establish a pay wall. There are problems with all three, though now we have proof that pay walls don’t always work. The proof comes from more »

Find web news too slow? Google is looking to change that with its new lab service Fast Flip, a lighting fast view of a news page. Google believes that what is holding online news back is the time to load. Are they right? Users who are surrounded by newsprint and magazines should feel right at more »

The Wall Street Journal, in a bid to survive the growing shift of newspaper readership from print to online, has announced it will implement a new micropayment subscription model on its website.

Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, told The Financial Times that “a sophisticated micropayments service” will launch this autumn. The system would charge small fees to occasional users who may not be willing to pay more than $100 a year for a subscription to WSJ.com, Thomson said.

The WSJ is not the first paper to try and maximize its online profits. In February, Newsday announced it will soon start charging for access to its online content. With print newspapers struggling to survive amid sinking ad revenue and dropping readership, expect more and more of them to start experimenting with online revenue ideas. These days more and more people go online for their news and it makes sense for the papers to do what they can to profit from it.

Today, Amazon delivered invites to an event being held at the New York Times former headquarters in the City. Amazon doesn’t hold a lot of these, so speculation is something new is coming. This new thing is purported to be the savior of the flailing newspaper world. Even better, it might actually work.

The idea isn’t new. In fact, Kindle owners can digitally subscribe to newspapers right now at reasonable rates. Just how many take advantage of this is kept secret by Amazon. Many e-ink readers are scheduled to make it to market by year’s end. Amazon looks to get a jump on them.

The economics make solid sense. By getting the newspaper companies out of the paper and printing business, they’ll be able to deliver their content with very little overhead. The newspapers would be saving millions of dollars. Think of the recycling plants not getting all that paper each week.

Since the advent of television news, newspapers have been struggling. Sales have been slowing, circulation and staffs shrinking, with more and more small town papers dying out. Some would call print news a dying business.

The Internet boom since the 1990′s threatened to be the death sentence for newspapers, but instead many of them have looked at it as an opportunity to adapt to the changing world. Recently, newspapers’ websites have become an even better and more interactive source of news than their print counterparts. In addition to the Internet hallmark of posting breaking news in real time, newspapers have been adding blogs by their most popular journalists and commentators, podcasts, audio and video, and a growing number of interactive features that allow readers to connect with one-another and discuss the news.

While it’s true that print sales and circulations have been steadily declining, web revenue has been pouring in more and more.

That is, until now. Keep reading for more details.