Amazing what technology is doing for distribution costs. New media are being born almost everyday, and I can barely count how many new FREE daily newspapers we get in Paris now every day: morning papers, evening papers; sports papers, news papers, financial papers... Of course since they are fully ad-supported it made sense to make them available fully on the net.
Here are 2 examples:
our partner at vpod.tv : www.economiematin.com (check the PDF)
and the brainchild of Ben: www.grandchelem.net (check the PDF)
interesting model... distribution costs on the net are close to nil, don't involve printing costs, and extend the audience... the real question is : are folks reading the PDF online, or printing it ? A friend of mine used to print El Pais every day, as he couldn't get in another format from Spain...