Up Your Ego: Independent printing payments
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 08:59
"The Independent Newspaper has an interesting way of making a bit of extra cash from their website – they’re restricting printing. … You get the choice of a ‘free print’ where you can make up to five copies using your home or office printer for free (with an ad). You can make an Instant print on your home printer with six or more copies from 25p to £1 per copy without ads. … Or you can have 50+ copies printed by them and sent to you within two business days, these cost 75p to £1.10 per copy – again with no adverts."
Editor & Publisher: Get Out of the Printing Business, Moody’s Tells Newspapers
Saturday, 6 June 2009, 06:32
"Unless newspapers can figure out how to reduce their high fixed costs of printing and circulation, their already low credit ratings could fall even farther, Moody's Investors Service warns in a report relased Thursday. … Moody's calls it a "structural disconnect" with just 14% of cash operating costs, on average, devoted to content creation, while about 70% of costs are devoted to printing, distribution and corporate functions."
