I don’t know, but I imagine that printing costs must be incredible. What if a substantial chunk of their subscribers could be encouraged to move to edelivery?

It might pay for these papers to subsidize these devices. Something like “buy a two year esubscription get $50 off the purchase of a Kindle.”

At present the Kindle only offers subscriptions to 31 newspapers.

They’re the big ones. The first three listed are “New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday.”

Unfortunately there’s no midsized town paper like “The Shreveport Times.”

Give them a year or so. Smart papers will be pushing to get into the Kindle store.