Re: Economics of Paper vs. Electronic Publishing

[Richard Bos <Richard.Bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Cabral wrote:
>
>         There has been some discussion lately of reviving the New York
> Guardian as a project for the entire US left to participate in. I can fill
> in specifics about the economics of electronic publishing, which I have
> some experience with, but first will someone, maybe Louis Proyect, give
> some information about the economics of paper publishing and perhaps give
> a history of the Guardian and its economic problems a discussion of its
> specific economics. I want to know about its sources of revenue,
> readership, method of distribution and advertisement. I'm currently of the
> opinion that the economics of a web-based magazine are superior to that of
> paper publishing, but I also feel any national paper or magazine worth its
> salt will also have to publish a physical edition.
>
> Kevin
> Cols, Oh
>
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I agree with the last point. Until everyone,or even most people are on
the internet, if a paper in to be worth any salt at all, it must have a
physical edition.

99% of workers do not have access to this system. It is a bit hard to
knock on doors, or walk up and down demos with a VDU tucked under your
arm!

Incidentaly, to all the people on the list who have asked me about the
availability of the New Worker on the web .......well the editor has got
sick of my nagging and has given me the job of setting it up.

We are preparing the shell now, and should be up and running in
"under-construction" mode by the week-end. I will let you all know ASAP.
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Best wishes,

Richard.



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