Posted on 08/25/2007 10:07:49 AM PDT by LdSentinal
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The weekday and Saturday newsstand price of The (Baltimore) Sun will go up to 75 cents from 50 cents starting Monday, the newspaper said Friday.
"This is our first price increase in 12 years," said Tim Thomas, vice president for marketing for The Sun. "We've maintained that price for a long time."
Thomas said there will be no price increase for the Sunday Sun, which is $1.66, and no increase to the home delivery price.
On Mondays through Fridays, The Sun sells an average of 37,000 papers at newsstands, he said, meaning the price increase affects about 16 percent of its average daily circulation.
The price hike is necessary to offset increases in delivery and printing costs, including gasoline and newsprint, Thomas said.
"This reality is being reflected by a lot of other newspapers," Thomas said.
I would not wipe my a** with this newspaper!!!
That’s some damned expensive fishwrap!
Looks like The Baltimore Sun is going to get a lesson about “price resistance”.
Cost of publishing in general is going up.
The Red Sun’s not even worth ONE cent. The only good uses that come from it are toilet paper and kindling for your fire.
25 more reasons not to read that democrat propaganda...
All newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and professional journals all over the world are really obsolete since the Internet has become widely available to most of the general public with exceptions to the poorest in third world countries (and even their access to the Internet is improving everyday). Environmentalists who are profoundly into “saving trees” should be attacking all of these things (”paper users”), and they should also be attacking their hero, Al Gore, for “inventing the Internets” as he puts it.
I never used the Sun but I can tell you that USA Today is highly ineffective as well.
Today, the only magazine I still get in the mail is the National Geographic and only because I keep them in my library in those fancy slipcovers. I have back issues going back to 1965 and it's fun to drag them out and look at them from time to time. Also, the photography and fold-out maps just doesn't translate as well to the Internet.
I used to subscribe to as much as 15 magazines (much to the chagrin of my wife). Now I go online to access content of them so why bother getting them in the mail.
I used to subscribe to four newspapers, WSJ, Boston Herald and two of the local papers. Now I only go on line and happily pay WSJ to access their content there.
I agree it is a waste of paper taking a magazine or newspaper through the mail these days.
Nice.
Typical liberal economic thinking. We’re selling fewer papers, so we’ll raise the price.
At 75 cents / day, this increases the price to almost exactly the daily cost of ... basic DSL service.
Liberal newspapers = buggy whips.
The price of bird cage liner just went up.
Sounds like my doctor's waiting room.
I would love to see that “government building” in Pueblo, Colorado close because they stop making those government pamphlets!
Once upon a time the Sun used to be a great paper, but that was then. When the News American went under the Sun turned hard left.
One (only?) outstanding Baltimore Sun achievement:
June ‘96. Two journalists, Gregory Kane and Gilbert Lewthwaite, spent a total of seven days investigating allegations of slavery in Sudan. As a part of their investigation, they purchased two half brothers who they said had been held as slaves for six years.
In other words, the Sun’s reporters went to Africa and proved that some Africans were still openly selling African slaves to Africans and others.
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