That has meant fewer inches of advertising in your daily newspaper. Despite this trend, the newspaper has not reduced the amount of news it prints. Editors have used well over 1 million column inches of news space for many years. Although plentiful, the primary raw material used by newspapers is newsprint. Newsprint is delivered to Abilene in large trucks.
Rolls weigh about one ton each.
The newspaper uses over 4,000 tons a year. Almost all of the newsprint is recycled. Although we don't foresee the Internet replacing the newspaper, our electronic newspaper is becoming bigger every day. We were one of the first newspapers in Texas to have an electronic newspaper on the Internet. We anticipate the number could double in the very near future.