Slimming down saves papers a tonne of money

A few interesting factoids from an interesting story published by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association in its house organ The Publisher.

• The Globe and Mail saved $2.3 million in newsprint when it lopped 1.5 inches off its page width;
• The Globe will reduce its page size further in 2010, shearing off another inch in width and 1.75 inches in depth;
  
• Newsprint prices in December were $944 a tonne, up 61% from the same time in December 2007
• Transcontinental says resizing its papers in Atlantic Canada saved between 10 and 15 per cent.