On Jul 12, 2:10*am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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PARIS -- As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted
this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the
biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-
year history.

Death toll? How many US papers have closed this year, to date? One in
Tucson, one in Denver, one in Seattle... and a couple more. In 1967, we lost
about 30 daily metro papers... all were either evening papers, which
succumbed to the Huntley Brinkley Report and to TV evening news in general,
or were the second paper in the morning in a metro. Guess what, the ones
that I named were all second papers, and there is not enough money for them.



then it shows you that concentration had to start somewhere. last
time i checked, oslo norway, pop. a little over 3 mil. still has 3
dailys.

So the article starts with an inaccurate statement, as if hundreds of papers
had closed when it is barely a handful.



nope, if there is only daily, and its gone, then cities have one less
source of information. did you read the complete article?


And Axel Springer is expanding in things like controlling a major share of
online classifieds in his markets, as well as profitable specialty
magazines, radio, TV, the German equivalent of Amazon.com, etc., etc, etc..
All the revenue growth is in electronic media and new media.

did you read the article. they are looking for papers and magazines
to purchase.

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then it shows you that concentration had to start somewhere. last
time i checked, oslo norway, pop. a little over 3 mil. still has 3
dailys.

As I mentioned before, what sustains European papers, and will for a while
longer, is the immense use of public transit systems. What percentage of
newspaper users buy the paper to read on the train or bus?

No US city, save New York, has anywhere near the use of public transit, and
most of the use is by those who can't afford cars. What drives public
transit in Europe is far denser population, resulting in an ease in creating
transit routes very near each person's residence.

Without public transit, the reading time for papers would be reduced
enormously and many papers would fail.

In Buenos Aires, the southernmost city in Europe, one major daily, Clarín
observed that nearly half its daily circulation was bought at Subte (subway)
stations and bus and train stops. And that is why in Europe and Latin
America, Sunday circulation falls way off, while in the US it is much higher
than the Monday-Firday press run.

The US depends on home delivery for most circulation... in other parts of
the world, there is often no home delivery... all copies are sold on the
street.

On Jul 12, 1:02*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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then it shows you that concentration had to start somewhere. last
time i checked, oslo norway, pop. a little over 3 mil. still has 3
dailys.

As I mentioned before, what sustains European papers, and will for a while
longer, is the immense use of public transit systems. What percentage of
newspaper users buy the paper to read on the train or bus?

No US city, save New York, has anywhere near the use of public transit, and
most of the use is by those who can't afford cars. What drives public
transit in Europe is far denser population, resulting in an ease in creating
transit routes very near each person's residence.

Without public transit, the reading time for papers would be reduced
enormously and many papers would fail.

In Buenos Aires, the southernmost city in Europe, one major daily, Clarín
observed that nearly half its daily circulation was bought at Subte (subway)
stations and bus and train stops. And that is why in Europe and Latin
America, Sunday circulation falls way off, while in the US it is much higher
than the Monday-Firday press run.

The US depends on home delivery for most circulation... in other parts of
the world, there is often no home delivery... all copies are sold on the
street.

you go where your customers are. but in my case, i love the door to
door service. but why buy a bland corporate paper that is a
conservative doormat. in europe, papers still break stories faster
than the internet. which menas people value them.
letting madison avenue that is populated with conservatives and
libertarians choose what we see, hear and read, has been a disaster.