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The Washington Post will raise its newsstand price from 35 cents to 50 cents beginning with editions of Dec. 31, the company said yesterday, responding to the paper’s decline in circulation and advertising revenue.
The home delivery price for The Post and the Sunday newsstand price will not change.
The Post’s most recent newsstand price increase came in 2001, when it went from 25 cents to 35 cents.
For a decade, the median daily price for U.S. newspapers has been 50 cents, according to the Newspaper Association of America. According to the group’s 2005 statistics, 81 percent of papers charged 50 cents per daily copy, with 6 percent charging 35 cents. In the past two years, a few newspapers have raised their single-copy price from 50 cents to 75 cents.
“The daily newspaper has a lot of value in it for 50 cents, and investments continue to be made in it,” Post publisher and chief executive Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. said yesterday.
And even more value when you get it for free.
