New York Post plans return to 25 cents

Source: Crain's New York Business

The New York Post plans to reverse its price hike of two weeks ago and go back to selling for a quarter, possibly as soon as tomorrow, according to newspaper industry sources.

The move comes as newsstand sales for the Post at certain high volume outlets in Manhattan have plummeted in the days since the News Corp.-owned paper raised its price on April 30 to 50 cents. Sales in certain key locations have fallen by as much as 20% since then, according to an executive at a competing paper who has been monitoring newsstands.

Post executives had felt confident that the paper could hold onto the slight lead in circulation it eked out over the Daily News in the last two Audit Bureau of Circulations reporting periods, even at double the price. Apparently, they were wrong.

Managers at two Grand Central area newsstands say they were told by sales contacts at the Post that the paper will drop back to 25 cents tomorrow. A newspaper industry insider with contacts among news dealers and wholesalers also says he's heard the Post planned to restore its 25-cent cover price on Thursday.

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Gee, I can't imagine why a right-wing tabloid in liberal New York City would lose circulation after doubling its price...

:puke: on Murdoch and all his asswipe rags.

I usually pay about 89 cents a roll for toilet paper. This is so much cheaper.

...someone needs to go down to the Post and just blow the livin' shit outta high prices:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwH5KEbAipY&mode=related&search=

from "Used Cars" with Jack Ward and Kurt Russel -- one of the better scenes.

Maybe they should try just giving them away, I'm sure there are bird cages in need and puppies that are being trained.

:rofl:

I love my little girl(That's her in my Avatar) and I would not put that crap in her cage and traumatize her!

Oh my, I never thought about the babies, you are so right. Forgive me. :hug:


For the life of me, I can't think of a good use for the trash.

Too many trees sacrificed for nothing.


:rofl:

At least once a week I come across someone giving away stacks of free papers, ostensively "sponsored" by some local advertiser. Usually they don't seem to be much more popular...

were guys giving them to anyone that walked by.

it's a lot easier to just make up your own outrageous stories about democrats and celebrites, thats pretty much what the post does.

both papers suck, but at least the NY Post has a descent sports section.

:eyes:

LOL :D

was a Rag, and apparently, always will be a Rag.

Actually the Post used to a very LIBERAL paper.

In the late 70s, I remember watching "All In The Family", hearing Archie Bunker put down the Post when talking to Meathead. Archie read the conseravtive Daily News -- "New York's Picture Newspaper" as it advertised itself.

Looking at its long history, the right-wing turn of the Post is a recent thing.

Maybe they aren't very good with math but doubling the price of the paper and only losing 20 percent of the readership is still more money for them. For example 1,000 papers before would be agross of $250 now it would be $500 except they lost 20 percent of the readership so they would gross $400.00 now.

It's a much better tabloid anyway.

and both sell well...

But I love to pick up a paper like Globe or Herald for a quarter!

Can you call it deflation?

Free magazines and free papers are everywhere in Boston. Cut throat Competition.

where they lost their most knowledgable staff and hired cheap inexperience help, and the customers went away in droves.

The Village Voice, AM New York, Free Press, metro - etc.

of the Post to all the riders (and the TVs on board the ferries were always tuned to Fox News. UGH. The ferry was a sea of Ugly newspapers. I often wondered if many of the riders would buy it on their own. I haven't bought or read the Post since their halcyon days of liberalism back in the late 60s and early 70s. What a different paper it was then; they carried regular columns by the likes of Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin (they even carried Art Buchwald's syndicated column back then). Ah the memories, before Murdoch :mad: bought it and turned it into birdcage lining.

wide.

toilet paper it might be worth buying.