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The Times loses almost 90% of its readership after going pay
- icey 16y agoSo the real question is whether the £1.4m a year they estimate they'll bring in now is significantly higher or lower than the revenues they were generating when they were free. I would assume their operating costs are now noticeably lower, at least from a hosting and bandwidth perspective. Maybe this isn't a doomsday scenario for them.
- russell 16y agoI would say that little money isnt worth the loss of readership. Let's say the next scheme to save the empire is tee shirt sales. They have lost 90% of their customer base. Driving away customers isnt going to save newspapers.