Anyway, these newspaper vending boxes are going the way of pay telephone booths. Besides, they charge so much these days that most people don't have the pocket change to buy one even if they wanted to.
The newspaper industry is in its dying throes. In 1994, you could still rent a videotape at a corner drugstore but you just knew that industry was on its way out, especially when the selections were "Karate Kid", "Toto - Live in Concert" and "Ernest Goes To Camp."
Well you can still buy a newspaper but you might want to shrink wrap it and put in up in your attic. Might be a collectors item someday, when our grandchildren grow up and want to see what a printed newspaper looked like. They will gaze at it in puzzled fascination in the same manner that we like to see "Mad Men" on TV when women used to wear dresses to work and men wore those funny looking fedora hats when they went outside. (Two cheers for having mini-bars in your office at work!)
Speaking of advertising ("Mad Men"), the newspaper is quickly becoming irrelevant. If you want to sell your boat (and what boat owner doesn't?), you would post your ad on Craigslist or some other website like that. Not in your local newspaper, which nobody reads. Or at least not anybody with enough money to buy a boat.
About the only newspaper worth anything these days is the Wall Street Journal and they appear to have stayed ahead of the curve with respect to having an online presence. Their web-based newspaper is first rate. But even they try to get you to take their print edition as well, even though the WSJ print edition is difficult to ready on my backyard picnic table because the wind keeps blowing it all over the place and bugs climb all over it. It's also tough to turn the pages and get them back folded again where it looks neat and tidy. It's so much better to just take my tablet to the picnic table and read the WSJ that way.
