More free stuff

[partain]

http://www.gazette.com/articles/gazette_52210___article.html/news_small.html

The Colorado Springs Gazette announces plans for a free paper targeted toward the downtown area, west side and Manitou Springs.

"This is meant to be a 10-minute publication people can read while they're having a bagel," said Jeff Thomas, The Gazette's executive editor. "The Gazette is going to remain a place where they can get a full course meal of (news) when they want it."

We get the Gazette at my office and I guarantee it's no more than a 10-minute read six days out of the week. Somedays it's not that much.

If free on the internet isn't the answer, how is free on paper going to help?

 

[Football_Bat]

When you pay 50¢ (or $1.00, in the case of the DMN) for a paper, all you're paying for is the cost of delivery.

Speaking of the DMN ... they tried this a few years ago with a free daily called Quick. Needless to say, Quick is now a weekly.

 

[lone star scribe]

When you pay 50¢ (or $1.00, in the case of the DMN) for a paper, all you're paying for is the cost of delivery.

Speaking of the DMN ... they tried this a few years ago with a free daily called Quick. Needless to say, Quick is now a weekly.

And still losing money, according to DMN's quarterly statement released this week.

 

[mediaguy]

I think you'll see more of this. Doesn't D.C. have a free daily tabloid now? Thought I'd heard that.

 

[SixToe]

D.C. does have a free tab.

I flipped through it every day on vacation a couple of years ago and was not impressed. It was something to read to kill the time on the train, but I got little to nothing out of it.

 

[fishwrapper]

When you pay 50¢ (or $1.00, in the case of the DMN) for a paper, all you're paying for is the cost of delivery.

Speaking of the DMN ... they tried this a few years ago with a free daily called Quick. Needless to say, Quick is now a weekly.

And still losing money, according to DMN's quarterly statement released this week.

That's not very quick. Can there be a worse name for a weekly?

 

[Football_Bat]

When you pay 50¢ (or $1.00, in the case of the DMN) for a paper, all you're paying for is the cost of delivery.

Speaking of the DMN ... they tried this a few years ago with a free daily called Quick. Needless to say, Quick is now a weekly.

And still losing money, according to DMN's quarterly statement released this week.

That's not very quick. Can there be a worse name for a weekly?

Yes. The Hungry Horse News!