Re:The subscription-pocalypse
by Silhouette on Monday January 28, 2019 @06:51AM
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Having a physical paper printed and delivered seems to be much more difficult than serving a website, as the latter has marginal cost close to 0.
Presumably much of the cost of serious journalism is in the journalism, not the mechanics. It would make sense for the online version to be somewhat cheaper than the paper one with physical delivery, but it wouldn't surprise me if the real difference in production costs was only a few pence plus whatever postage costs them.
Presumably much of the cost of serious journalism is in the journalism, not the mechanics. It would make sense for the online version to be somewhat cheaper than the paper one with physical delivery, but it wouldn't surprise me if the real difference in production costs was only a few pence plus whatever postage costs them.