Instead of just wringing their hands, many people are starting to come up with solutions to the economic problems facing daily newspapers today. Interestingly, many of these solutions echo my blog back in May that online newspapers should adopt the iTunes model for paid content delivery. 

There are still many detractors to this approach, and many problems. But a consensus seems to be building that any industry that gives away its primary product for free is on a slow boat to oblivion.

Here’s a recent post from MediaBistro.com’s FishBowlNY that summarizes and links several excellent posts on this subject. And here’s one that argues giving every subscriber to the New York Times a free Kindle is cheaper than dead tree journalism. (I apologize to all my Twitter followers who may have already read some of these).

As somebody says in these articles, delivering newspapers cheaper and faster via the web should be seen as an opportunity for publishers, not the end of quality journalism as we know it. The quicker editors and publishers get their heads around this idea, the better off we’ll all be.