A cost/benefit analysis for the NY Times
Nicholas Carlson at
Silicon Alley Insider ran some numbers and ran into an interesting idea:
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle
Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle instead.
Here's how we did the math
Not that they would actually have the foresight to do this of course. A lot of publications are going to internet only or dropping their publication schedule from monthly to bi-monthly or quarterly.
Posted by DaveH at February 2, 2009 6:02 PM