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When I was a little kid and even well into my teens, you could purchase a copy of The Washington Post from a newsstand for a quarter, and even as late as 2007 you could get a copy for just 35 cents. Nowadays the newsstand price is a whopping $1.75! The NY Times was 30 cents for a daily copy most of the 1980s, but nowadays its ten times that amount! Part of the recent jump has less to do with high inflation and more of a consequence of the technological changes brought forth by the Internet and later smartphones. So how much do newspapers charge at newsstands where you live now and in the past?