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Both Papers Suck,Both Papers need to die!

I'm right w/you. They can't even tempt me with the free newspaper offers. Sometimes it's all I can do to stop myself from beating a poor newspaper box to death over some biased headline when I'm at the bus stop.

However, here's a serious question for anyone w/some extensive e-commerce experence. How much is it costing these newspapers to go online and how much (if any) revenue are they generating from their online sites?

What I'm getting at is, how much of these losses can we attibute to new technologies eating up profits and not contributing to revenue and how much to people just refusing to buy liberal lies? (not that that's a bad thing)

However, here's a serious question for anyone w/some extensive e-commerce experence. How much is it costing these newspapers to go online and how much (if any) revenue are they generating from their online sites? What I'm getting at is, how much of these losses can we attibute to new technologies eating up profits and not contributing to revenue and how much to people just refusing to buy liberal lies? (not that that's a bad thing)

This may not be a direct answer to your question, just another way of thinking of it.

Newspapers make their money with ad revenue. Obviously if the major print media aren't being successful that means the ad revenue is going some place else (or management at the Seattle Times is fiscally irresponsible with the revenues they are generationg, which is an entirely different point).

Listening to Seattle radio, I'm sensing that more and more print advertisers are become radio advertisers. Seattle residents spend so much more time in their car and in front of their computer screens that I think it's eating into the print media market.

At least that's what I'm suspecting. Hopefully somebody with more e-commerce experience than me can directly answer your question.

They can't even tempt me with the free newspaper offers.

They used to call us all of the time. My husband took great pleasure in having long conversations with them about why he would never consider spending money on their newspaper.