There were also major liabilities associated with continued ownership, including the fixed costs of a long-term printing contract with Trinity Mirror.
The cost of shutting them would include paying the Mail owners to break their agreement and the cost of breaking the titles' long-term printing contract with Trinity Mirror.
INM's costly long-term printing contracts for the Independent titles with Trinity Mirror are understood to be still under negotiation, with an extended deadline for exclusive talks between the two parties set to end next Friday, 26 February.
Mr. Ryan said the future was in a multiplatform approach to news, "without the baggage of a long-term print institution".
Whether digital will long term give printed books a run for their money is still in the balance: they're expensive to produce and command a low price, making it hard to turn a profit.
"Long term, are PCs, printing, servers and services businesses that are going to grow?" said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Bernstein Research.
In the long term, this blue print will most likely unravel.
To address the malaria problem, the country is implementing the 2009 2017 National Malaria Strategy [ 4] as part of the health sector programmes within the framework of the Kenya Vision 2030 long term development blue print.
Long term there's voxel printing on a molecular level to create fabrics that have different consistencies throughout, he said.
A big issue is the price of printing over the long term, especially the high cost of replacing ink cartridges.
With print sales in long term decline attracting digital readers is key to future survival, however the question remains as to the value of a digital versus print customers.
