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ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS: WILL THEY HERE SOON? Economic realities are pushing the nation's dailies to the edge of a new car: delivery of written news to customers on their home screen. Confronted with a technological revolution that threatens their survival, American newspapers are joining the electronic age instead of fighting it.
Some are already experimenting with transmission of stories electronically into homes for reading on television screens. Many big newspapers are buying into cable television companies as a step toward electronic publishing. At the same time newspapers are putting more emphasis on the quality of their writing and reporting to gain new readers and keep those they already have.
Behind those developments are hard and increasingly important facts, During the 1970s total daily newspapers' circulation in the US hovered around the 60 million marks despite an 11 per cent rise in the nation's population and a 22 per cent increase in the number of households. The proportion of people who read a paper daily dropped from 69% to 57%. Afternoon newspapers would hardly compete with the television network evening program.
Growing number of publishers see technology as a possible answer to these problems. They fear that if they don't go down that road the others will. The new technology is bringing all media into a common arena, The distinction that separated newspapers from magazines, that made television different from newspapers is now blurring.
Nobody knows for sure how rapidly electronic publishing will become a part of everyday journalism. Already some newspapers are leasing cable channels on which subscribers are able to read reports from various wire services, local news rewritten for viewing on a screen, weather and even advertising. Many people see a wholesale shift from print to electronics as still decades away.
They cite cost factors and also argue that reading words on a screen is a much
less efficient way than print to absorb large amounts of information.
For these reasons, some analysts believe electronic publishing will develop slowly, with most papers limiting themselves to transmission of stock tables, motion pictures listings, sport results, headlines, classified ads and similar materials. All these are relatively easy to read on screen and can be continuously updated.
Even such limited transmission would icad to shrinkage in the size of the daily newspaper subscribers. Therefore publishers are taking steps to make dailies more competitive with television's attractions by improving content and making new use of print technology.

Exercise I. Answer the questions.
I. In spite of the 11% rise in population and 22% increase in household the
proportion of the newspaper readers is dropping. Why?
2. Why did many publishers consider clectronic technology to be a possible answer
to the problem of newspaper survival? Give your reasons.
3. Reading words on a screen is less efficient than absorbing printed information. Do
you agree?
Exercise 2. Find in the text phrases:
I. proving that American newspapers confronted the new economical and technological realities and were searching ways of survival;
2. explaining the reason for slow development of electronic publishing.
Exercise 3. Write a briefsummary ofthe text.
1. Define the main problems dealt with in the text.
2. What phrases of the text centering round these problems may be used as a plan of
the summary?
3. Give a summary of the text according to your plan using the following words and
expressions: it widely known that; it is not by chance, just for that; nevertheless: therefore.