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Were subscription fees ever the primary revenue source for print newspapers and magazines? I was always under the impression that the majority of their revenue

• betterunix2 8y ago
  It depends on which newspapers you are talking about, but what I said was that newspapers should not have tried to replace subscription fees with ads, because subscription fees were never trivial and were always needed for serious newspapers to be profitable. There is also the issue of online ads generating far less revenue than their print counterparts, and the fact that newspaper ads include the formerly profitable classifieds section which now has to compete with things like Craigslist.