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Re:Won’t Subscribe by helsinkiandrew on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:19AM (#24615057)
> Then what was the whole point of going online (broadly speaking), if not to decrease delivery cost of articles?

To chase the audience that had gone online. The newspapers were loosing customers to other sites that could produce articles cheaply themselves or republish newswire stories or rely on content from users and didn't have the overhead of a traditional newspaper

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Re:Won’t Subscribe by ricardobeat on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:50PM (#24622077)
> didn't have the overhead of a traditional newspaper

Hm. So you are saying going online decreases costs? Can't have it both ways...

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Re:Won’t Subscribe by helsinkiandrew on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:30PM (#24623941)
No I’m saying people aren’t buying print newspapers. There’s 30% less than in 2000 and the revenue of the remaining has dropped off a cliff. The surviving papers have moved online to find new customers and some have got rid of print version altogether.
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