Do you know that is costs more to print the New York Times each year then it would be to send a free Kindle to every one of their subscribers?
The Kindle retails for $359. In a recent open letter, Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis wrote: We have 830,000 loyal readers who have subscribed to The New York Times for more than two years." Multiply those numbers together and you get $297 million -- a little less than half as much as $644 million.
So the New York Times could conceivably send every one of their subscribers a free Kindle and save $347 million dollars a year. Also you have to keep in mind all of the energy that the trucks and printing presses use up. You also have to factor in all of the waste that that newsprint generates as well.
Instead people can just pick up one device and have the paper delivered to them by a single download and when they are done they just delete the paper. So I guess you could say the Kindle is the first device that will make a "green" newspaper industry possible.
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