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Reader's price expectations had already dropped to $0.00/month before the Kindle newsstand launched.

The newspapers had already set the price to free for about 10-15 years before Amazon launched the Kindle newsstand.

The newspapers for the most part have still never made the online quality as good as the print copy too.

People cannot discount that these papers all put up free editions on the web for a long time and didn't realize the damage till the print subscriptions tanked.




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