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A new wave in Seattle's newspaper war?
With Skiff, Hearst plans to enter the e-reader market and give the online P-I another way to compete with the Seattle Times.
With Skiff, Hearst plans to enter the e-reader market and give the online P-I another way to compete with the Seattle Times.
Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.
New figures show the Times held on to two-thirds of its old rival's daily readers. But the advertising picture remains murky as the critical holiday season approaches.
The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.
P-I presses stop; Times troubles roll on