VP: More Kindle users would save money

Greg Schermer, Lee's vice president of interactive media, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has 562 Kindle subscribers without promoting the service.

The Quad-City Times also is available on Kindle. The Post-Dispatch charges $7 a month; the Times is $6.

The two papers send their papers to India each night where they are converted into Kindle's format then sent to subscribers. Schermer said converting more subscribers to the Kindle or similar products would save money in newsprint and production. "That's a big expense for a company like ours," he told The Pantagraph.

Schermer did not say how much Lee spends to send the paper to India each night to convert it to the electronic format.

2 Lee papers available on Kindle

The Quad-City Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch are both available for Amazon's Kindle.

The Quad-City Times is $5.99 per month. It is No. 9 (out of nine) on the midwest best-seller list. The Post-Dispatch is $6.99 per month. It is No. 6 on the same best-seller list.

The Chicago Tribune at $9.99 a month is the most popular.