Newsday home delivery goes to $18.49 per week (Hudson: promotional, school)
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Newsday has long run filler announcements that home delivery prices will rise. Today, an email explained that it will go to $18.49 per week, billed every five weeks. I recall the era when Newsday was an afternoon paper delivered by youths after school. Now, it arrives about 5 a.m. with an occasional tip envelope to the contractor (not the driver). I presume this is part of a strong national trend, such as the Lower Hudson Gannett paper printing only Sunday-to-Friday. The NY Post website does not disclose its rates beyond initial promo. The NY Times, after the initial promo, is $17 digital per 4 weeks.
Pretty much this. Newspapers are on their death bed. Only way to make a profit anymore is to raise the prices to something ridiculous. Which in the end is only going to help them be out of business sooner.
Newsday has long run filler announcements that home delivery prices will rise. Today, an email explained that it will go to $18.49 per week, billed every five weeks. I recall the era when Newsday was an afternoon paper delivered by youths after school. Now, it arrives about 5 a.m. with an occasional tip envelope to the contractor (not the driver). I presume this is part of a strong national trend, such as the Lower Hudson Gannett paper printing only Sunday-to-Friday. The NY Post website does not disclose its rates beyond initial promo. The NY Times, after the initial promo, is $17 digital per 4 weeks.
I pay much, much less than that for Newsday home delivery. The customer service reps are somewhat flexible with regard to subscription prices if you are willing to cancel to get a better rate. When my subscription rises to a price I don’t want to pay I call to cancel and they usually offer a better deal. The time or two they didn’t, I cancelled and weeks or months later got offered a better rate.
I also get the Daily News delivered for $2.99 a week. Newsday isn’t worth $18.49 a week in comparison. The $2.99 Daily News rate is a promotional rate for 26 weeks. When it ended last time I called to cancel if I couldn’t keep that rate. They said no so I cancelled. Two weeks later they sent me a letter offering the $2.99 rate again.
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I get Newsday and the Times everyday. The Times has come at a discount rate for
years . Every time , the "promotion" wears off , I call and cancel and they put me back on
the promo rate. The Times is a fantastic newspaper ( the crosswords especially ) . I don't
know how they can even print it at that rate .
I don't think I pay that much for Newsday . I will have to check and see.
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I was going to quote one reply in this thread, but most seem to have the same slant, so I won’t.
I agree the price is high, and that mostly only older people(my 62 year old self included) subscribe these days.
Local papers do a service that CNN, FOX, etc., etc., etc., don’t. Newsday may not appeal to you, but it does have reporters digging up stories that otherwise would go unreported. I can’t help but think that it keeps some politicians and ne’re-do-wells on their toes.
Online news has value too, but I just feel it leans more toward titillation than information.
No need to rehash it here, but the advertising that used to subsidise newsprint has all but faded away. Find a paper from 30 years ago- you’ll see what I mean.
I just feel newspapers, especially local ones, provide intangible value, and I’d like to see them thrive.
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