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> Are you including the cost of people? That is, the cost of paying people to maintain the servers, develop the backend and design the frontend? They're a lot
by anamax 16y ago
> Are you including the cost of people? That is, the cost of paying people to maintain the servers, develop the backend and design the frontend?
They're a lot cheaper than people involved in printing paper and distributing it.
- scott_s 16y agoCan we put numbers on this? Even ballpark numbers. Because I'm thinking that if you have one system admin, one frontend dev, and one backend dev, that will cost at least $200,000 a year. That assumes that the cost of each person is at least $66,666 a year - that is how much they cost, not how much they are paid. I think that's a very low number, both in terms of number of people and in how much they cost.
- chc 16y agoHere's a ballpark: http://ask.metafilter.com/73789/Cost-of-printing-national-newsapaper#1097623 http://ask.metafilter.com/73789/Cost-of-printing-national-ne... And that's just printing, not counting the physical paper design folk, who also cost money and who actually are needed to design each individual issue (as opposed to website developers, who I maintain are not needed constantly to update a site whose primary product is not software).