In September 27th, according to foreign media reports, founded in 1734, "Lloyd" (Lloyd sList ship daily ') will stop issuing printed edition, fully digital.
There have been nearly 280 years of history "Lloyd's list" is the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, originally it is posted on a notice on the wall Coffee Museum in London, has now become the main source of global shipping market news and analysis. This Wednesday "Lloyd ship daily" announced to stop printing.
The newspaper management, the reader more small for the growing interest in the print edition, prompting the newspaper made this decision. A recent survey ship "Lloyd" in the journal, only 2% readers rely solely on the print edition gets "Lloyd ship daily" content.
"Lloyd ship daily" editor Richard? Mead (RichardMeade) in a statement about the advantages of digital publishing, and expressed relative to the printing plate, most readers are more like the digital version. Digital publishing can bring new opportunity and way, through service innovation, provide the depth of news and information of various aspects for the shipping industry, and according to the reader's individual needs, provide market information and data.
Difficult times this decision coincides with the newspaper industry. Over the past ten years, the newspaper industry profits, print advertising revenue and circulation are in decline. Although some daily through the paywall and print edition exclusive content to maintain profits and print issue, but other newspapers have tended to abandon the printed version was changed to the full digital distribution.
In 2009 March, "Seattle Post Intelligencer" cease print version, a month after the "Christian Science Monitor" cease print edition. "Newsweek" and "U.S. News and World Report" magazine can then choose to give up the print version, to publishing only the digital version.