The Economics of the NYT: This Can’t Be True

By Daniel Miessler on February 3rd, 2009: Tagged as Economics

Printing the New York Times newspaper costs twice as much as sending each subscriber a free Kindle.

Sheesh. No wonder they’re in trouble. ::

  • Michael S Black

    favorite part “And here's the thing: a source with knowledge of the real numbers tells us we're so low in our estimate of the Times's printing costs that we're not even in the ballpark.”

    Wow….Bump the costs to 500 and you could send every subscriber a decent netbook…

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Yeah, so this is just evolution telling the print industry that it's time.

  • Michael S Black

    favorite part “And here's the thing: a source with knowledge of the real numbers tells us we're so low in our estimate of the Times's printing costs that we're not even in the ballpark.”

    Wow….Bump the costs to 500 and you could send every subscriber a decent netbook…

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Yeah, so this is just evolution telling the print industry that it's time.


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