Now You're Saving Twice as Much By Not Reading the 'Sun'
It wasn't on Romenesko. We didn't see anything in "Off the Record." David Carr has yet to file a charming column on how his lovable teenagers reacted to the news, and Keith Kelly has applied no nickname. And yet it's apparently true:
The New York Sun doubled its newsstand price yesterday, to 50 cents.
With the 22,000 single-copy buyers the paper was reporting a bit over a year ago — and, yes, we'd like to cite more recent numbers, but the Audit Bureau says the paper's been "under voluntary temporary suspension of service" — that means an extra $5,500 a day for those krazee konservatives. Well, before newssellers' commissions. And wholesalers' fees. And the inevitable sales dropoff the higher price will induce.
Which is ultimately to say: Why bother?
