But that doesn't stop Maillist's Sean Fu from being upbeat. He says that e-papers by their nature target small niche audiences, so there's no need to expect any single paper to have startling circulation figures. But given the streamlining of personnel at various e-paper platforms right now, even if only 10 % of circulation is accounted for by paid-subscription e-papers, there's still quite a clear profit to be made.
魅力站的傅尚揚卻十足樂觀，他表示，電子報本來就是分眾的，不必期待各個單獨的電子報能達到多麼驚人的數量，但以目前各家電子報經營的人事精簡狀況來看，只要付費報達到總量的一成，獲利仍十分可觀。