I didn’t say that the earlier steps were nothing,
I said that not having the costs for printing, trucking, warehousing amounts to SOMETHING.
That they aren’t as negligible as the article, especially the quote, is making them out to be.
I worked at a newspaper for 30 years. Printing isn’t THAT cheap. Twenty years ago was the first time I heard the statement that the subscription costs don’t pay for the blank newsprint.
More than half the employees at the paper worked in printing, production (assembling the paper with inserts, etc), moving it around and getting it to the trucks, or delivery.
BTW, Halting State is one of my all-time favorite books. Thank you.
