USA Today newsstand price jumps 100 percent

Worked for a publisher years ago who was a zealot for increasing the cost of subscriptions and the paper's retail price. Advocated a European model, where apparently the equivalent of $2 or $3 per copy was common.

Of course, this was before the Internet really took off, back when papers had relative monopolies in their markets as news outlets. I would think that nowadays, the NYT or the WSJ or even small-to-mid-size dailies in underserved markets might be able to claim specialness of content, but the mass-marketed-and-processed USAT would least be able to make that claim. Much of what they run is easily found in similar forms online.

 

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That's why I'll never get rich. Don't think big enough.