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portfolio.com - 12/15/2008
Newspaper Economics - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers
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Jim Surowiecki's column on newspapers is a good one, especially when he talks about the drop-off in advertising revenues and newspapers' failure in the online space. I have to take issue with this, however: People don't use the Times less than they did a decade ago. They use it more. The ...

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Matthew Yglesias:  News Without the Paper

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  The Problem with Online Newspapers Is that You Can Block the Ads

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News Without the Paper
Matthew Yglesias — ... This is wrong. As Felix Salmon says when you pay for the physical newspaper you’re not paying for the news, you’re paying for the paper. A newspaper is a big physical object. Creating it and distributing it on a daily basis is a hugely expensive undertaking. And subscriptions to newspapers are cheap — the amount of money being charged for home delivery of The New York Times or any other major paper only does a tiny amount to defray the costs of producing and delivering the object. ...

The Problem with Online Newspapers Is that You Can Block the Ads
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Newspaper Economics: Jim Surowiecki's column on newspapers is a good one, especially when he talks about the drop-off in advertising revenues and newspapers' failure in the online space. I have to take issue with this, however: ...

The Problem with Online Newspapers Is that You Can Block the Ads
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Newspaper Economics: Jim Surowiecki's column on newspapers is a good one, especially when he talks about the drop-off in advertising revenues and newspapers' failure in the online space. I have to take issue with this, however: ...

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