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Originally Posted by Russ
Playing devil's advocate (plus acknowledging I don't know how these things work), what's wrong with the money they get from selling physical copies as well as the income from online advertisers?
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The problem, according to the Murdochs at least, is that the free availability of news is reducing the sales of physical copies.
TBH, I'd be surprised if that weren't the case. In and around London at least, the time when most newspapers is sold is during the rush hour. I've been commuting for years, and while it used to be the case that most of the people on my train read newspapers, the things I see being read more than anything else are tablets and phones. Oddly, the number of people reading books doesn't seem to have changed much.
Now, I realise that that is hardly a scientific or exhaustive survey, but if that pattern is repeated (even if it's just across the south east of England), then the news paper owners are losing a lot of potential sales of physical papers.