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hlthe2b

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3. Do you mean delivered daily hard copy to your home?
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 10:39 AM
Dec 2011

Incredible bargain--even more so for those outside the NYC area.

That said, I unfortunately don't want a hard copy newspaper delivered daily to my door. I don't have time to fully read it except on the weekends and thus rely on the internet to peruse a variety of newspapers. I feel guilty about this because it is having such devastating impacts on the newspaper industry, but having had to deal with the ever rising mounds of unread newspapers in my home, it just isn't worth it.

I don't even buy my own Denver Post except occasionally on weekends. I read online about a dozen US and international papers--not fully, but peruse the major stories. I read the NYT less, because of their subscription fees which I just can't justify.

So, there you have it... I don't know how to save the industry. It would be nice if there were an online subscription "menu" that, say, for your $15/month would allow access to a certain number of the major US and international newspapers that you chose each day and could change each day as you desired. I would be more likely to go with that. But it would require the newspapers to come together to arrange such a service.

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