We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.
This year, for the first time in history, more old albums will be sold than new ones. In the first half of 2012, "catalog" albums -- those released more than 18 months ago -- sold 76.6 million units. New units tallied 73.9 million. And the difference are likely to increase -- "new" will never outsell "old again." Why is this happening?
So sad. The Times-Picaune is apparently disappearing as it currently exists, opting for mostly a Web presence and publishing a print edition just two or three times a week. Somebody who's been through that drill in Ann Arbor, Mich., offers advice on "What New Orleans Can Expect When Its Newspaper Goes Away":
