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The Boston Globe to hike home delivery rates (eventually to $26 per week)
Boston Business Journal ^ | 3/6/18 | Don Seifert

Posted on 03/10/2018 6:29:48 AM PST by raccoonradio

The priciest regional daily newspaper in the U.S. is about to get pricier, with as much as an 80 percent increase possible for some home delivery subscribers.

Last week, some longtime subscribers were notified via email that their weekly cost will go up to $19.70 a week, but the email made no mention of the further planned price hikes.

A customer service representative at the Boston Globe’s subscription phone center told a Business Journal reporter Tuesday that the company is planning to increase its seven-day-a-week home delivery cost, after all discounts have expired, to $25.90 per week for subscribers in the Boston metro area. The representative said the increases will be phased in gradually, but didn’t say how long it would take.

Asked to confirm what the representative said, a Globe spokeswoman said, “We don't comment on specific subscription pricing.” However, the spokeswoman added that “producing, printing and distributing quality journalism faces rising costs. We are grateful to be part of a community where readers value what we do."

Such a price hike, which works out to $1,347 a year for daily delivery, would be more than an 80 percent hike from the current non-discounted cost. It would also be significantly more than the New York Times ($16.26 per week), the San Francisco Chronicle ($13.13 per week) and every other regional newspaper in the U.S.

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The Boston Globe, or Fenway Gazette as I call it (owned by Red Sox owner). Meanwhile I subscribe to the Boston Herald, which will have new owners soon--and is printed by the Globe's presses under an agreement.

The Herald is $8 per week to subscribe for home delivery, 7 days (reg price $2 per day)

1 posted on 03/10/2018 6:29:49 AM PST by raccoonradio
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“... the Globe’s owner, John Henry, has complained about the cost of printing the paper at the Taunton printing plant that opened last June. In an email interview with the Business Journal in January, Henry said the company spends “triple the industry average to print and produce a newspaper,” and warned that if he can’t rein in expenses, the Globe may “end up being printed where costs are reasonable.” Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern journalism professor and the author of “The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century,” said it makes sense for the Globe to charge a lot for subscriptions. At $30 a month after discounts have expired, the newspaper’s digital prices are already more than the New York Times, the Washington Post “or anyone else that I know of,” he said.

“A dozen years ago I would have said that print would be gone by now,” Kennedy said in an email. “It lives on, and probably will stay that way for many years to come — but not as a mass-market product. Print is becoming a niche product for people willing to pay for it.”

But a large part of the Globe;’s revenue still comes from advertising, and print ads continue to be much more valuable than online ones.”


2 posted on 03/10/2018 6:31:07 AM PST by raccoonradio
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Boston Globe is owned by the NYT. They’re pricing themselves out of the market.

Expensive liberal fishwrap. Another dying fake news media outlet.


3 posted on 03/10/2018 6:32:42 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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This foretells the end of printed papers in the USA. Too expensive for normal people. Soon only the rich liberal elite will be reading print papers.


4 posted on 03/10/2018 6:33:11 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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Everything is digital these days.

Save the trees and install a free e-book reader.


5 posted on 03/10/2018 6:35:22 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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Globe is owned by John Henry of the Boston Red Sox. The NY Times lost a lot of money when it sold the paper.

Wikipedia:
>> In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Boston Globe a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times’ parent...Henry made his own separate bid to purchase The Globe in July 2013. On October 24, 2013, he took ownership of The Globe, at a $70 million purchase price


6 posted on 03/10/2018 6:35:23 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: goldstategop

I must confess to liking the NYT crossword puzzles. Never buy the paper, just wait until the store throws out the old ones and fish out the puzzle.


7 posted on 03/10/2018 6:36:36 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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The Fenway Gazette...

8 posted on 03/10/2018 6:38:04 AM PST by raccoonradio
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The Globe wanted to scare its readers in a 2016 fake headline about what a Trump presidency would look like
9 posted on 03/10/2018 6:39:43 AM PST by raccoonradio
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Yeah but you’ll make up the savings with coupons! < /sarc >


10 posted on 03/10/2018 6:41:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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Old people buy newspapers so they can keep up with the obituaries.

The millenials will never buy them.


11 posted on 03/10/2018 6:42:24 AM PST by shelterguy
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The Boston Globe....the source of “FAKE”news for those whose hearing doesn’t allow listening to CNN.
CNN..the AUDIO source of “FAKE” news for those whose eyesight no longer allows reading the Boston GLUB.
Both belong to the”NICHE” media club.


12 posted on 03/10/2018 6:42:47 AM PST by CaptainAmiigaf (.)
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This foretells the end of printed papers in the USA. Too expensive for normal people. Soon only the rich liberal elite will be reading print papers“

Amazing how history repeats in the Middle Ages only the wealthy could afford printed words.


13 posted on 03/10/2018 6:43:39 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Clearly they want to go full online. Why not just do it now?


14 posted on 03/10/2018 6:50:06 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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The Glob should just go all the way, and then they’ll be just fine from all this leakage.

Raise the price and/or delivery rate to $100M. Then, they all they have to find is about 10 or 20 loyal customers. SHould be easy for this market in the People’s republic.

Then, who cares about the other millions of sheep that buy the rag.


15 posted on 03/10/2018 6:50:50 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: goldstategop

Boston Globe is owned by the NYT. They’re pricing themselves out of the market.

Expensive liberal fish wrap. Another dying fake news media outlet.

My brain still short of coffee ended up with a Yearly Cost of $1352.

Very expensive Fishwrap.

Well over a decade, I decided that I didn’t want the SF Gay Chronical. My wife liked it, and I said fine, “You can pay for its cost.”

She paid for one quarter and there was another price increase, and she cancelled the delivery.


16 posted on 03/10/2018 6:51:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry hornet's nest of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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The millennials will never buy them.

Neither will those in their 40’s to mid 50’s, what ever that group is called.

None of our adult children, their spouses, nieces/nephews and their spouses in their 40’s to mid 50’s subscribe to a newspaper. They never have and never will. Their neighbors never get newspapers.

Which is why they and we get weekly ads in our mail from grocery stores and other vendors.


17 posted on 03/10/2018 6:59:30 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry hornet's nest of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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The Bowtied Bumkissers of Morrisey Blvd. strike again.


18 posted on 03/10/2018 7:10:24 AM PST by MGG
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The Globe is no longer owned by the NYT.

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19 posted on 03/10/2018 7:11:02 AM PST by Mears
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To: raccoonradio

Our little hometown paper is that for a whole year. The two freebie ones are just as informative.


20 posted on 03/10/2018 7:21:18 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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