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« on: October 09, 2012, 12:58:32 PM »
Just read that they have closed the Chesterfield Advertiser free paper. The owners, Johnston Press, are keeping the Derbyshire Times which had a price increase just recently.

Is this another nail in the coffin of the printed press as the web slowly takes over? I can see a small role in the future, but only a small one.
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2012, 01:04:25 PM »
Is that to ensure people continue to buy the DT at its' inflated price, as we can no longer get similar information free from the Advertiser?
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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2012, 01:29:38 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2012, 05:11:02 PM »
TBH I think there will, for a while yet anyway, be a market for the DT. There are older people who only buy it for the the obituaries - and I don't think most of them have web access. Which also begs the question, do local obituaries appear on the web?
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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2012, 05:50:10 PM »
The obituaries online are pretty useless IMHO.
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Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2012, 05:58:32 PM »
Where are they?
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« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2012, 06:14:31 PM »
I have seen them via the Sheffield Star online ,and you can light a candel and leave a message ,did it with a cousin of mine.
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2012, 06:20:56 PM »
Exactly, useless.

Here's all the obits for October 2012 so far. Not that easy to find  :(
http://announce.jpress.co.uk/browse?s_source=jpno_dtj;type=obit
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