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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by firecall on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:02AM (#44753155)
Depending on the specifics of the publication, we can broadly say that print media used to get more revenue from advertising than people actually buying the physical media.

You could Google it and read about the decline but Wikipedia is a place to start:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers?wprov=sf...

Newspapers used to give copies of their daily paper away in bulk to distribution hubs so as to boost circulation. In fact, they still do.

You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight.

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by adamc on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:00AM (#44757801)
"You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight."

I have literally never seen this. In the US?

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by arl79 on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:52AM (#44758611)
In Europe for instance
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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by CWuestefeld on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:04PM (#44758767)
You're really just observing that the marginal cost of reading is tiny. That doesn't mean that the fixed cost of producing an article or edition isn't very large, and needs to be paid for somehow.
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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by FuriouslyAdrift on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:08PM (#44758820)
The beginning of the end was Gannett and USA today...
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