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>However, newspapers typically lose money on these subscriptions since the cost of producing and delivering paper outstrips the revenue. That just seems like a
by smackfu 14y ago
>However, newspapers typically lose money on these subscriptions since the cost of producing and delivering paper outstrips the revenue.
That just seems like a silly definition of "lose money" though. Like you get income from the subscriber, and income from the advertisers to show ads to that subscriber, but only one is counted against the costs? Doesn't make sense.
- jeremymims 14y agoWhat I mean to say is that as a newspaper subscriber, you've never really paid the full cost of what it cost to write, research, produce, package, and deliver a paper to your door. It's a loss leader with the assumption that print ads would make up the difference and then some.