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The printed blog died before the ink could even dry... We read:

"It is with great sadness that I must report that, due to a lack of outside investment capital, The Printed Blog is ceasing publication....

Last year, I had an idea. I wondered what would happen if some of the business model principles that work online were applied to the troubled newspaper industry. The more I thought about it, the more the curiosity got to me. So I registered a domain name, developed an action plan, and started the process of building a new kind of newsprint publication.

Everyone said I was nuts, but I did it anyway.

16 issues, 80,000 print copies distributed, another 100,000 or so copies downloaded, and countless new friends, fans, and collaborators all around the world later, I may still be nuts, but I have zero regrets.

Creating a new breed of newsprint publication from scratch was an amazing experience, and it was humbling to have been so prominently included in the global discussion on the future of journalism and the print media....

I’ve been contacted a dozen times over the past 6 months concerning granting a license for or entering into another type of partnership with The Printed Blog. At this point, I’ll do my best to help anyone who can make use of the work we did… just drop me a line...
Source:
http://blog.theprintedblog.com/

I feel that this is not a failure, but just someone that was on, as we call it, the "bleeding edge." It is with most certainty that the Internet shall be the funnel that fuels the print-shop of the future. The sooner printers embrace that, the quicker creators and publishers will adopt such no-brainer, fluent interfaces.

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