All the news that’s fit to be Kindled? N. Carlson from Silicon Alley Insider, has come up with some mathematical guesstimates and figured that The New York Times might survive the decade by actually ‘stopping the presses’.. If the Times simply issued free Kindles to every subscriber rather than print the newspaper, it could save nearly half of its operating budget.
Shocked? You shouldn’t be. Mr. Hirschorn’s piece in The Atlantic foresees the Times closing it doors this year. New York magazine also had a recent article about the “renegade cybergeeks” who could ‘save the paper’. Here’s the breakdown: According to the New York Times’ financials, production costs such as raw Read the rest of this entry »