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What defines a newspaper?  Is it the "news" or the "paper"?  If it's the latter, then yes, newspapers are probably going away.  But I think the business of newspapers is news, and there will always be a market for professional journalism and analysis.

I doubt that in a few years you will be able to buy a New York Times at your local newsstand.  But you won't need to.  You'll have a Kindle in your hand that automatically delivers stories from the New York Times as they are updated.  It's the same thing, just without the newsprint getting all over your hands.

You don't even need to wait a few years.  I actually gave up my subscription to the Times five years ago in favor of the online version, but I still read it as much or even more than I did in print.