More apples/oranges comparisons: it's also less than half of a $5 coffee, and a fraction of the cost of a new car!

And much smaller than Rhode Island.

It's an online paper. Comparing the price to the print equivalent is not apples/oranges

It is apples and oranges.

I have actually owned in the past:

* A real, bi-weekly printed publication.

* A couple of mildly successful blog sites.

Their economics are wildly different.