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USA Today newsstand price jumps 100 percent

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by gravehunter, Sep 29, 2013.

  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

  2. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    That makes two papers in my local racks I won't be buying. I'll spend two for a NY Times or Wall Street Journal, something with some substance, but not McPaper or my local pub.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Business travelers won't care.

    As was pointed out, I'd bet a ridiculously high percentage of that daily circulation are from people getting it for free at the hotel.
     
  4. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    I think this is what Jeff Bezos was alluding to when he said that newspapers might eventually become "luxury items" in many markets. A move to $2 pretty much does that.
     
  5. exposbabe

    exposbabe New Member

    it's a big jump but I really don't see it as a luxury item. Not even close.

    Don't know how much it is in your neck of the woods but it's about the price of a pack of gum or a chocolate bar here, less than half the price of a latte. And in the last few years tickets for the big lottery (equivalent of Powerball) have gone from $1 each, to $2 and now, suddenly, $3 each.

    And yes, I realize that none of our salaries have doubled or tripled in the interim.
     
  6. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Today's page count: 32 pages, $2. Ya, that'll sell some papers. ;)
     
  7. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Yes, but the weather map is in color. And there's news from <b>all 50 states.</b>
     
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    It's worth the $2 just for the Al Neuearth Plain Talk column.
     
  9. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    Ummmmmm . . . news flash . . . !!!
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Yeah I know
     
  11. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    But not Sports News from all 50 states. That move still gives me the sore-ass after all these years.
     
  12. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    The end is near.
     
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