著者

小野寺 尚希

出版者

The Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology

雑誌

日本印刷学会誌 (ISSN:09143319)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, no.1, pp.16-23, 2013

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Japanese newspaper publishers have been tackling the digital media business since the 1980s. However, these were based on news feeds that were not run in the newspaper. They were mainly treated as breaking news because they were easy to handle, and it was able to avoid a cannibalization of newspaper circulation. But the e-newspaper concept introduced by Roger Fidler in 1994 strongly impacted publishers. Although e-newspapers could not be realized due to less advanced technology at that time, publishers were inspired by future business prospects and a standardized structure for exchanging articles. After that, the web was thought of as an e-newspaper. It failed as an e-newspaper business, however, because charging via the PC was not standard practice. When smartphone and tablet devices finally emerged, the e-newspaper business might be realized. Although there are still some issues, if newspaper publishers could solve them, e-newspaper business would move forward to next step.