[Leica] PHOTOG BAD NEWS!!!! :-)

Richard Man richard at richardmanphoto.com
Fri Jan 23 22:52:29 PST 2015


Ha ha, I wonder how many luggers are subscribers to the Economists (which I
must note, is probably the UK version, not the US rag of the same name)

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Clive Moss <Clive at moss.net> wrote:

> I get the Economist online and audio - and I give the paper edition to my
> son-in-law. To get my local rag (Chicago Tribunes) and New York Times
> online, I subscribe to the weekend paper auditions only and trash them. I
> think that it is because the advertisers value paper subscribers highly. An
> expensive fiction.
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:44 PM Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Of course I do, and a lot more than I used to. The costs for an online
> > subscription for most magazine is that a years' online subscription costs
> > roughly 10-15% of what it used to cost for a print subscription for a
> year
> > - The Economist is an exception, but not so the FT from the same stable!
> I
> > would guess that the net margins for the publishers would be roughly the
> > same for both types - if you take into consideration the cost of
> > machinery/paper/consumables/extra staff that it took to put out a print
> > edition.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > But you still consume the journalism, just online, right? I read more
> > > newspapers than before, but I too have just one paper subscription,
> also
> > > The Economist. In fact, I called them a couple of years ago asking how
> > much
> > > cheaper it was just to get the iPad edition. The answer was that it
> would
> > > be virtually the same price since I was really paying for the content,
> > not
> > > the paper. Fair enough, so I continue to get it both electronically and
> > on
> > > paper. The paper edition spends most of its time in the toilet ;-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nathan
> > >
> > > Nathan Wajsman
> > >
> > > Alicante, Spain
> > > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
> > >
> > > YNWA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 24 Jan 2015, at 03:09, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just think this is part of the accelerating trend of the end of
> print
> > > journalism. For example, I have long subscribed to around 25 magazines,
> > and
> > > I get a hard copy of just one still - The Economist, due to the fact
> that
> > > it was a long term subscription. Sign of the times, and the good news
> > > emanating out of this trend is it will save a few trees, here and
> > there.....
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Jayanand
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPad
> > > >
> > > >> On 24-Jan-2015, at 06:54, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Damn, I wish you were right, but this is the country in which a
> large
> > > percentage of the public buys into fox news...
> > > >>
> > > >> ric
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Tmanley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> They are "hoping" that the photographers will continue to
> contribute!
> > > Hah!!! I hope the photographers boycott forever. Let SI depend on crowd
> > > sourcing for "good enough" photos. No one will know the difference!!
> > Hah!!!
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Tina
> > > >>
> > > >>
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