Giving out free. Hmm, think Todays making money, it still giving out free, nowadays.

Cost can be cut further, if hard copy papers r avail anywhere, no attendant, just a cast box. As for house subsription, esp for HDB n Condos, hourse owner just go downstair to collect their entitlement. Now, may can it out again. Remember decade yrs ago, at People Park Centre, there were 50 sets of nite paper placed at d escalator n a cash box. Know how, papers cleared extornishingly fast, but in d box only one 20cts coin collected by d tester, end of the nite.

Incidentally, in d 80s, u just need to get a bus ticket at any of d ticket teller at d bus stop in Swiss n board d bus. Bus driver would never ask u for ticket ones. Of course AK kena asked lah, that time my outfits look like refugee mah. Rember, then got rufugee camp at upper thomson rd area????

iPunter      ( Date: 21-Mar-2009 11:25) Posted: Hahaha... At least when they wipe your PC, they can ask you to tell them about the latest news too ... Anyway, newspapers are also a must, though alone it's not enough for a lot of people... Especially when it's so cheap... just take a look at every Saturday's newspaper for instance... It's so bulky and yet it's so cheap.. and yet they still can make tons of money with it from advertising revenue alone. Maybe next time, they may think of giving it out free, since even then, they can still have profit.

There's increasing competition, lots of articles to read online from various scources and the generations are getting more IT dependent.

Yup, agree SPH needs to reinvent itself asap if they want to thrive on.