Newspapers is it a thing of the past?

Right now with how technology is moving forward I would say newspapers, magazines and books are all headed for the same terrible death. Already many of your major newspapers are already available to read online along with magazines and books. I don't see any change in this even smaller newspapers are become available to the online reader. This is both a positive and a negative if you break it down. On a positive note, we are not destroying as many trees as we once were, and anywhere you are that the internet is available the news is only a click away. And on a negative note, how can these businesses stay afloat without having consumers pay to read them. Now books publishers have already figured that out by charging to download or buy a key to their books. Although I feel that this would be impossible for newspapers to do. Why you might ask? Well unless every news paper goes to a purchase or membership plan there is no way to stop people from just getting their news from another source. Is there really a way to charge for the use of newspaper that would be fair? To me it looks like these companies are going to need to live off of ad payments and hope that does the trick. I can honestly say that I have not picked up or paid for a newspaper in over 2 years, and somehow I still manage to keep caught up with the news off of the internet.