I went back to last summer and found that the Barron's of one year ago was 60 pages, down 47%.

Last week I participated in an online poll about how often I read a hard copy of Barron's ( I have been a subscriber for years) and how often I referred to the Barron's online, and questions along those lines. The implications are clear, Barron's is seriously questioning it's current business model.

This does not come as a shock. It is no secret that newspapers everywhere have taken a big hit from the rise in Internet usage. Furthermore, in this economy advertisers have reduced their budgets. In Barron's case some of their clients simply do not exist, like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers on the advertising side, and thousands of unemployed financial people on Wall Street on the reader's side.

I still prefer to relax in the backyard with paper in hand and leisurely read it with a cup of coffee, then go online. Younger generations feel differently. Perhaps the wireless tablet readers will be the compromise.

Newspapers look like they are dead now but they simply refuse to lie down. Like the melodramatic death scene in an old comedy. If the Internet keeps increasing in availability through more wireless use and more devices then how can the newspapers survive, even the best of them? Barron's produces superior content so I think it will still exist, but I do not know how long the hard copy will be sustained, and I would be sad to see it go.

Sheldon Liber is the CEO of a small private investment company and the principal for design and research at an architecture and planning firm. He writes the columns Chasing Value and Serious Money.