TOLEDO, Ohio — The Blade is announcing delivery days will be down to two, almost a year after cutting print delivery to three days a week.
Starting March 10, physical delivery will stop for Wednesdays. The Blade will be e-delivery-only five days a week.
"The Blade is going forward to the digital future - to modern e-delivery (eBlade) and away from old-fashioned print delivery," wrote Allan Block, chairman and CEO of The Blade's parent company Block Communications Inc., in an article published Sunday.
Blade subscribers will still get "old-fashioned print delivery" on Thursdays and Sundays, but other than that - it's all online. Block writes in the article that this decision is because, "for the newspaper business and The Blade, the future is digital," and urges the embrace of technological changes.
The article cites the advantages over print delivery offered by e-delivery, including the ease of access across technology and the lack of geographic restrictions. E-delivery is greener, allows for later deadlines and video features.
A suggested alternative for subscribers who still prefer conventional, non-digital copies is a print function and a two-sided printer, which Block writes, "is superior to a paper produced by a rotary press."
In March 2020, The Blade ended print delivery for Fridays and Saturdays.
The Blade will continue to have full editions online every day in eBlade form.
If you're a fan of the traditional printed newspaper, you'll still have Thursdays and Sundays to look forward to your old-fashioned delivery. But in the future, those will likely become another thing of days past.
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