This is part of a trend by newspapers across the nation. The Lincoln Journal Star, Columbus Telegram, the North Platte Telegraph and Kearney Hub are among the Nebraska paper that already have made the change. The Omaha World-Herald and other Nebraska newspapers will make the change later this year. A cost savings in newsprint is one of the major reasons behind the change. The newspapers are trying to keep their costs down to limit future increases in prices.
Newspaper publishers know they risk the loss of readers when they raise the price.
They do it is as little as possible. Publishers also are hoping that their customers will find the narrower paper easier to read. Certainly the newspaper will be easier to hold for those sitting in their easy chair. It won't be completely different The Independent, which just won another first-place Associated Press award over the weekend for its newspaper layout and design, always takes traditions from its past, and puts them toward the future. But there will be some new innovations.