“Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
—Gore Vidal

Closer?

Except these days it’s Web killing the print stars … over and over again.

You may recall the story a few months ago when the Editor-In-Chief of the Tampa Tribune noted, “People need to stop looking at TBO.com as an add on to The Tampa Tribune. The truth is that The Tampa Tribune is an add on to TBO.”

Point being, of course, that pixels are supplanting dead trees as the information carrier of choice.

Some publishing entities are eschewing print entirely — with the Christian Science Monitor reporting yesterday that next year, “the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily email editions.”

Yet another huge signpost on the road to wherever it is all this is headed.

Two words: Cool idea.

Smashing Magazine is a great Web site that, as they describe it, intends “to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development: clearly, precisely and regularly.”

If you’re involved in selling something online, your site probably has some sort of a pricing table on it. Just as probably, you didn’t put as much thought into it as you’ll find in this article they recently posted.