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Re:Newspapers Lose $10 Dollars in Print for Every $1 Gained ... by TylerE on Monday March 19, 2012 @01:35PM (#3725062)
As far as "Any individual newspaper can make more money by giving their news away for free and selling advertisements than they can by charging readers.", that is absolutely NOT true. Advertisers pay much more for ads in paid publications. Has to do with reader engagement.
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Re:Newspapers Lose $10 Dollars in Print for Every $1 Gained ... by Alex3917 on Monday March 19, 2012 @03:56PM (#3725861)
Maybe they make more per ad, but how many newspapers are making more money than Facebook or Google? The only reason that newspapers can't make that much money is they don't have enough volume, and the reason they don't have enough volume is that every other newspaper is free also.
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