Michael Becker's Library tagged prices → View Popular

29 Oct 09

Some newspapers are increasing their revenue by raising prices for their papers, even as their circulation numbers shrink.

28 Apr 09

Alan Mutter says now is the time to increase the quality, and the price, of newspapers and their content.

proving the passion and loyalty of their readers by raising the single-copy and home-delivery prices of their daily papers to at least the cost of a venti, double-shot, half-caf soy latte. They go for $3.90 apiece at the local Starbuck’s
The last time daily newspaper circulation increased was in 1984, when it peaked at an average of 63.3 million papers per day.
2 more annotations...
- The last time newspaper circulation was this low was in the mid-1940s, when the population of the United States was half the size that it is today.
- After years of increasingly accelerating circulation declines, there can be no denying that print newspapers have become niche, not mass, products.