Zell sees the future: pdfs and the iPad

Sam Zell , the real estate investor who became a media mogul by acquiring the US group Tribune , is convinced that home-delivered newsprint newspapers are on its way out. So what's in store? Pdfs, he says, and - wait for it - the iPad . Zell told CNBC: "The iPad is the real example of almost replicating a newspaper on an instrument. I think that is only the beginning of how that is all going to evolve." Meanwhile, Tribune - publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune and eight other US dailies - is still in bankruptcy protection. Sources: CNBC / Reuters / paidContent