What if all newspapers were free?

Newspaper free-for-all

We all read freesheets and devour news at no cost on the web but what would happen if all papers were free? Richard Addis does the sums and finds some surprising results.

In 10 years' time, could all newspapers be free? Not just London Lite and the London Paper but papers like the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Telegraph and even the FT and the New York Times. Absurd? Perhaps not as much as it first seems.

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