Newspapers must be hurting ?

[beejmi]

The newspaper works better in the bathroom than the laptop though. But if that's your main "selling point" you're in trouble.

I am surprised one of these newspapers doesnt reinvent itself a bit. I would think that buying a radio station and then having that promote the paper and the website and then the paper in turn promoting the radio station and the website, etc would work hand-in-hand. Basically providing three forms of news.

 

[HiPockets]

The NY Times will not be missed. Free speech candle - heh.

Irony in the digital comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lehXXu7LaQ&feature=channel_page

 

[Doug]

The newspaper works better in the bathroom than the laptop though. But if that's your main "selling point" you're in trouble.

I am surprised one of these newspapers doesnt reinvent itself a bit. I would think that buying a radio station and then having that promote the paper and the website and then the paper in turn promoting the radio station and the website, etc would work hand-in-hand. Basically providing three forms of news.

Exactly... a newspaper/magazine is nice to have while taking a long crap, or to read as a passenger in a car,but not too practical anymore.

I'll take it at 1977 rates, though !

I don't see why they want to lose more money giving it for $1.30/week ? Nobody will re-up for $6/week or so.

Pay must suck at a newspaper ?

 

[onemwtheone]

Irony in the digital comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lehXXu7LaQ&feature=channel_page

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

As before, you always find what you are looking for. It's the suppression of counter viewpoints that's impossible. 1984-type control of information? It is to laugh.

 

[kidslick]

Pay must suck at a newspaper ?

Doug if the pay suck at my job I would of left years ago.

 

[HiPockets]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

As before, you always find what you are looking for. It's the suppression of counter viewpoints that's impossible. 1984-type control of information? It is to laugh.

Suppression of digital counter viewpoints impossible? Are you serious? Suppose Comcast caves to hillbilly born again conservative delusional crazed book burning public pitchfork logic and blocks any transmission of freethought digital traffic involving the novel '1984'. You think that is impossible? Do you think tracking of your book purchases and your library checks is impossible? Do you not understand how these digital activities could suppress your free thoughts?
Do you not understand that your bets and traffic on RX could be tracked and used against you in our future Hillbilly born again Taliban courts?

 

[JohnnyB]

I don't see why they want to lose more money giving it for $1.30/week ? Nobody will re-up for $6/week or so.

Hint: The vast majority of income for newspapers is not from the cover price.

 

[beejmi]

Pretty sure the reason for the low price is to get their circulation to a certain number and then at that number can charge the advertisers more. So in the end "giving it away" pays for itself. Sort of.

 

[chbrown]

I have delivered the paper to residential homes for the last 14 years. Just in the past two months I have either lost or they have gone to saturday, sunday only customers. About 65 customers. The cost has gone up and the quality has gone down. Some days they are so little they dont even fly up the driveway. Gannett mandated that their employees take a week off without pay to try and save themselves!!!!

 

[chbrown]

Exactly... a newspaper/magazine is nice to have while taking a long crap, or to read as a passenger in a car,but not too practical anymore.

I'll take it at 1977 rates, though !

I don't see why they want to lose more money giving it for $1.30/week ? Nobody will re-up for $6/week or so.

Pay must suck at a newspaper ?

Believe it or not the pay to deliver the paper is very good. I make in 15 hours a week what some make in a 40 hour week.

 

[treece]

great deals going on, so far this year i got:

Wall St. Journal- $9.80 a month (6 days a wk.)
Fortune- $20.00 for two years (48 issues)
Forbes- Free for one year (rewards gold)
Time- $20.00 for one year
SI- $10.00 for one year

How do you get the Wall St. Journal for $9.80 month?

 

[XXXylic]

Who still reads a paper??? Are you 80? Do you watch vhs tapes?

 

[TheCooler]

How do you get the Wall St. Journal for $9.80 month?

it's actually $9.92 a month

https://services.wsj.com/Gryphon/jsp/retentionController.jsp?page=10134

 

[BIGCOOKIE]

Believe it or not the pay to deliver the paper is very good. I make in 15 hours a week what some make in a 40 hour week.

I made about .05 cents a paper when I delivered papers in the early 90's. I had about 40 customers on my route, add in the Christmas bonus some people would give I was bringing home about $800 a year, at 11 I thought I was rich. Needless to say I pretty much spent it all on baseball cards and video games.

 

[Doug]

Believe it or not the pay to deliver the paper is very good. I make in 15 hours a week what some make in a 40 hour week.

I know they pay well to deliver a weekly paper around here.

You deliver bundles of papers to stores,restaurants,machines,etc, on a Wed/day, pays $200+ for 5-6 hours. I've been trying to get a route.

I wouldn't want to a daily paper early every morning, but a weekly would be OK.

 

[Doug]

I made about .05 cents a paper when I delivered papers in the early 90's. I had about 40 customers on my route, add in the Christmas bonus some people would give I was bringing home about $800 a year, at 11 I thought I was rich. Needless to say I pretty much spent it all on baseball cards and video games.

did you have to collect for the paper,too ?

I hated that part of it.

 

[BIGCOOKIE]

did you have to collect for the paper,too ?

I hated that part of it.

I didn't have to collect. I did have to deliver the free Sunday paper they would give out to all the non-subscribers. They would always drop those off Saturday night, I didn't want to have to mess with those in the morning so I would always deliver them around 9 or 10 at night. Usually I was pretty good at delivering subscribers papers right next to the door. But the free papers were fun to chuck anywhere from the street. Good times.

 

[Doug]

I had to collect, this was in the mid to late 70's.

The good part was getting tips. Paper was $1.25/week, most people gave you $1.50

 

[bigtendominator]

San Francisco Chronicle about to go under.