MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

RickyMaveety · 02-16-2009, 04:41 PM

I was listening to last weekend's broadcasts by Leo Laporte (who is generally known as the "Tech Guy" on US radio.

Anyway, Leo said that he loves his Kindle (I), but that wasn't the interesting statistic. He noted that the NY Times would save more than 1/2 of their operating budget in the first year if they (are you ready for this??) gave away free Kindles to all of their subscribers and moved all their subscriptions over to the Kindle.

They would save much more than that in the second year. Something like $647,000 dollars is spent by the NY Times every year for ink and paper.

I heard that and my head damn near split open.

02-16-2009, 04:41 PM	#1
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Interesting statistic ... I was listening to last weekend's broadcasts by Leo Laporte (who is generally known as the "Tech Guy" on US radio. Anyway, Leo said that he loves his Kindle (I), but that wasn't the interesting statistic. He noted that the NY Times would save more than 1/2 of their operating budget in the first year if they (are you ready for this??) gave away free Kindles to all of their subscribers and moved all their subscriptions over to the Kindle. They would save much more than that in the second year. Something like $647,000 dollars is spent by the NY Times every year for ink and paper. I heard that and my head damn near split open.