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Today I’m writing to say we’re cancelling the Wall Street Journal, and the weekday Minneapolis Star New York Times.
The reason is the daily newspapers is that most days now all three lie in a pile by the front door, wrapped in colored plastic, unread.
I, like you, am getting much more of my news online, almost in real time.
We just can’t justify $500 or even $250 a year for the paper edition of these three newspapers, and my reading habits have changed—and all for the better I think
Ultimately the paper product is a business model whose day has come and gone. Inefficient and bad for the environment in so many ways, the paper product will die off soon.
The next ten years in the newspaper business is going to get very ugly.
It’s because newspapers for a century enjoyed a monopoly in one area of classified and display advertising, jobs, stores and products.
That monopoly allowed them to charge $500 for a tiny classified ad, of which $400 was pure profit.
That monopoly will never come back, no matter what’s done to improve the paper product.
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I guess I'm illiterate because I don't read the Sunday NYT? Who cares?
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Today I’m writing to say we’re cancelling the Wall Street Journal, and the weekday Minneapolis Star New York Times.
The reason is the daily newspapers is that most days now all three lie in a pile by the front door, wrapped in colored plastic, unread.
I, like you, am getting much more of my news online, almost in real time.
We just can’t justify $500 or even $250 a year for the paper edition of these three newspapers, and my reading habits have changed—and all for the better I think
Ultimately the paper product is a business model whose day has come and gone. Inefficient and bad for the environment in so many ways, the paper product will die off soon.
The next ten years in the newspaper business is going to get very ugly.
It’s because newspapers for a century enjoyed a monopoly in one area of classified and display advertising, jobs, stores and products.
That monopoly allowed them to charge $500 for a tiny classified ad, of which $400 was pure profit.
That monopoly will never come back, no matter what’s done to improve the paper product.
You know...you could do us all a favor and just worry about posting when people say they will keep the paper.
EVERYONE knows that the industry is dying and people are canceling their printed paper.
Oh, Ken/Sweetie, I know you must view this article as extreme right-wing propaganda, but what's you position on the article...and don't say prone!
You know...you could do us all a favor and just worry about posting when people say they will keep the paper.
BUT THEN HE'D NEVER POST
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