Comments on: The Newspaper Business http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-newspaper-business/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Maximum Liberty http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-newspaper-business/#comment-101701 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:34:43 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=1654#comment-101701 It seems to me that a key factor in the decline of the daily-delivered newspaper is that the US postal service started delivering bulk ads that the newspapers used to deliver exclusively. Way back in the stone age, when I delivered newspapers as a kid, something like half the bulk was ads and we only got letters by mail. Now 85% of the mailbox is filled with ads and it outbulks the newspaper entirely.

Max

]]> By: Ajay http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-newspaper-business/#comment-98929 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:08:23 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=1654#comment-98929 Nice analysis from 2002 with a spot-on prediction, here’s a chart that shows what happened.

]]> By: R Richard Schweitzer http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-newspaper-business/#comment-98682 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:33:09 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=1654#comment-98682 Why does no one discuss the “readership” of newspapers; or of other print media?

How long before the issues of “viewership” become a dominant factors (as they appear to be doing in the “monetization” of social media?

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