Sometime during this week (03/17 to be precise) the Seattle PI newspaper delivered its last print edition.
The newspaper will go web-only as the owners have failed to sale it (it hasn’t brought in any profit in years).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509404,00.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/seattle_postintelligencer_publ.html
So what? Who cares if an 146 years-old* non-profiting news paper goes out of business.
Of course there will be nostalgics that will try to link it with happy, fulfilling events of their lives or even consider it a missing part of their interesting lives.
So you’d expect the last edition to sell out and each of those nostalgics should be entitled to one of the copies. Right?
Wrong, because this is the USA, and in the USA if an opportunity to make money arises and you don’t take advantage of it you don’t deserve to live on these blessed land. That’s exactly what some really ‘smart’ people did and bought more than one copy. Now that they have the copies, it’s time to make the money: go search “seattle post intelligencer” on ebay. Prices range from 1$ to 50$**  from people who melted the death of the print edition into their american dream. Isn’t this beautiful?

You can see the online edition here
*city of Seattle was founded somewhere around 1850 so the newspape is only (2009-146 = 1863) - 1850 = 13 younger than the actual city.
** there are a couple of offers outside this range, but I don’t think anyone is foolish enough to give 2.5 million dollars on a piece of paper :)