Globe to raise daily prices outside greater Boston
By adamg - 4/7/09 - 1:36 pm
NOTE: Headline changed to reflect the fact that the increase applies only outside the Boston area, not everywhere, as the Tattered Tabloid's headline would have you believe.
The Herald scoops the Globe on its own story and reports the paper is raising its daily price to $1.50 - $3.50 on Sundays - effective May 4.
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YIKES! No way!
YIKES!
No way!
Depends where you live
the Herald article that you linked to says: "the cover price of the beleaguered broadsheet delivered outside of Greater Boston Monday through Saturday will increase to $1.50 - a 50-cent increase."
It's also not clear whether this refers to home delivery or to papers "delivered" to stores, newsstands, vending boxes, etc.
This may be a 'scoop', but it's not a well-written scoop.
Arrgh, it's attack of the tattered tabloid!
My headline changed after I re-read the Herald story.
Anybody At The Globe Ever Take Economics 101?
Supply and... It begins with a "D"... Anyone? Bueller?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
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"D"...?
Doodoo economics?
Hmm, maybe. I mean that's what got the paper into this situation, right? Maybe I'm just taking the movie reference too literally, too. ;)
Doodoo Economics
I like that. A lot.
D = Demand. As in, your sales are down, so what's the obvious response by someone with no grasp of economics? Raise the price! That way, we make up the loss!
Uh, no.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
elasticity...
Probably, and they didn't skip the class that covered elasticity ;)
This has been tried elsewhere (Philadelphia) with some apparent success :http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/02/06/03.
Anecdotal, I know, but it doesn't strike me as an entirely unreasonable move...
Elasticity Notwithstanding
I don't think it works here. Just my opinion, of course.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I don't even pay now since
I don't even pay now since it's all free online...and I'm on a computer a lot.
Why Kill Trees?
Print media makes no sense to me.
-Cosmo
http://cosmocatalano.com
World's Toughest Writer
If I had the place, like a
If I had the place, like a nice desk that wasnt covered in computer stuff I think Id like to sit down and just read the paper.
Globe reports on its own price increase
Globe's newsstand price to increase in May
The details are significantly different from what the Herald reported:
I don't know how "city zone" and "Greater Boston" and "the region" are defined.
When I was in Miami (a
When I was in Miami (a couple years ago) the daily paper was 25 cents and the sunday was $1.00
The quality of the paper was on par with the Globe.
As far as I know, there are no threats to close the paper down.
Theres no way in hell id pay over 1.50 for a sunday paper (i currently dont) and a dollar for the daily is stretching it (the friday edition is worth maybe 30 cents)
Miami Herald
McClatchy would like to sell the Miami Herald but nobody has yet stepped up to buy it. This is alarming: Luncheon: Life Without The Miami Herald
Journalistic Tsunami
Man, it's happening all at once, everywhere. Like a complete systems breakdown.
So which US cities still have stable, thriving newspapers?
Not Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
Are other cities doing better? Washington DC, maybe? I haven't seen any Texas cities on the endangered list, but I may not be looking closely.
How many of us read the tea leaves...
...when the Christian Science Monitor said it was going almost completely online?
I know that I was guilty of thinking that maybe the quirky little paper had simply reached the end of its main run.