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Alexander Turcic · 01-31-2009, 01:14 PM

We have no way to verify these numbers, but Nicholas Carlson of the Silicon Alley Insider argues that the New York Times could save half of their costs by abandoning the print medium and donating an Amazon Kindle to each of their ~830k subscribers - free of charge that is.

Beside the fact that it would probably save a few happy trees, do you think such a drastic change of direction would be feasible? How many of those 830k subscribers do you think would stop reading the NYT simply because they don't like using electronic devices?

For an ongoing discussion, visit this thread.

01-31-2009, 01:14 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	How the Kindle could save the New York Times We have no way to verify these numbers, but Nicholas Carlson of the Silicon Alley Insider argues that the New York Times could save half of their costs by abandoning the print medium and donating an Amazon Kindle to each of their ~830k subscribers - free of charge that is. Beside the fact that it would probably save a few happy trees, do you think such a drastic change of direction would be feasible? How many of those 830k subscribers do you think would stop reading the NYT simply because they don't like using electronic devices? For an ongoing discussion, visit this thread.