April 7th is International Snailpapers Day

It's International Snailpapers Day again, on April 7, and the whole world's celebrating. Well, some of it.

Piet Bakker in Holland blogged: "We had Ted Tuner predicting in 1981 that newspapers would die within one year (in 2006 – not in any way hindered by his own mistakes – he said it would happen within 20 years). We had Philip Meyer predicting that in 2043 no American would read a newspaper every day (although many would read one almost every day). .....And now we have ‘futurist’ Ross Dawson saying that all newspapers (except those in Benin, Madagascar, Paraguay, Belarus, Honduras and some other exotic places) will die within 30 years." 

Ross Dawson has created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly he expects newspapers to remain significant around the world. "First out is USA in 2017, followed by UK and Iceland in 2019 and Canada and Norway in 2020. In many countries newspapers will survive the year 2040," according to Dawson.

Welcome, friends of print newspapers everywhere, it's International Snailpapers Day again, so mark your calendars for April 7.