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Alternatively, Craigslist has saved people $5 billion (minus fees for a few categories) since 2000.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Alternatively, Craigslist has saved people $5 billion (minus fees for a few categories) since 2000.
- loceng 13y agoThis is how I was looking at it..
- michaelfeathers 13y agoI feel the same way. The headline should say: Technical progress and competition have cost U.S. newspapers $5 billion since 2000, researchers say
- jlgreco 13y ago"Failure to innovate damages industry Dinosaurs"
- if_by_whisky 13y agoIf you consider how much value craigslist creates, its so much more than $5B. Everyone who wasn't willing to pay for a newspaper ad plus the people that were add up to a lot of benefit. Its a ton of value. It doesn't go into GDP. But its still real value.
- cpolis 13y agoAnd saved people countless hours in waiting for their classifieds to get printed and effort in figuring out spacing and setting up their ads.