Newspapers deliver news you to in an environmentally unfriendly, complex and redundant way.

They then charge you for reading it.

A model crashing before our tired eyes.

But suppose … things are turned round.

What if they gave you news for free via the Internet – and charged you instead for reading content created by others?

Brilliant.

Not so much because it would work easily or at all. But for the soaring leap of insight and imagination behind it.

Just to add that if you want a bit more on the complex financial problems facing the Indy and other UK papers, read this. And this