"In future, newspapers should be competing on quality, not price," says Simon Cheng, observing that compared with major newspapers overseas which cost at least NT $ 30-40, newspapers in the ROC have always been cheap. When a number of honestly-run newspapers in Hong Kong were forced out of business by cutthroat competition in a price war last year, it was the readers who suffered in the end.
「未來報業走的不應是價格之爭，而是品質之爭」，鄭家鐘指出，比起國外大報一份動輒三、四十元台幣，國內報價一向偏低；去年香港報紙的價格廝殺戰，幾家正派經營的報紙不敵血本殺價而倒閉，吃虧的還是讀者。