Paper is the problem

Rico says the solution to the big-city newspaper problem (like with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, as 60 Minutes explained this last Sunday) is not with the newspaper itself, but the delivery system.
Imagine, however, a public display like this one that, instead of a stack of papers inside, had a card reader so you you use your credit or debit card to 'read' as much of the paper (which we'll now have to call something else, since it'll be electronic) via a touch-screen as you want, and are charged accordingly. (Still have to have those ads, too, to help offset the cost.)
Bummer for the paper makers (good for the trees, though) and the printers' unions, but good for reporters and photographers and the local advertisers...
There'd be the Home Edition, too, of course, which you'd download on your computer, but this would solve the distribution problem for people without a Mac (what, you think they should have a Windows POS? Nah.) at home.