Twenty Bucks

[Dave Wright]

So I call and guess what now my monthly subscription is $10 a month for the next year

Why did they do that to you? They're disrespecting you man. Right now they're offering everyone else a full digital subscription for $1 per week for one year

[Jim Mahan]

You know what they say about rich people, the reason they are rich is they live like they are poor and poor people are poor because they live like rich people.

If that's what they say, they are dumb, and they probably don't know any rich people or poor people.

[Joe (SoCal)]

If that's what they say, they are dumb, and they probably don't know any rich people or poor people.

I will say with our business it seems to be true. We have many super high net worth customers that live in multimillion dollar coastal mansions and most don't tip. Meanwhile regular people living in regular homes are very generous tippers.

Coincidence who knows but my tipping data over the last 7 years seems to indicate the trope is kinda true.

[willin woodworks]

The Times was 50 cents in 1991 when I started commuting to NYC and I bought it on the platform from a coin box stand. There was a line of them at every station; The Times, The Journal, The Post and The Daily News.
The machines are long gone and last month the daily price went up a whole dollar to 4 bucks.
Used to be, every other person on the train was reading a paper and now theres maybe a dozen. I am one of only two in my train car reading a paper every day. Everyone else is staring at their phones or watching Netflix on a tablet....
Kinda sad really.

[WszystekPoTrochu]

I am one of only two in my train car reading a paper every day. Everyone else is staring at their phones
Kinda sad really.

Did you check what are they staring at? Maybe it's news?

[Garret]

Subscriptions an easily get out of hand, as it's simple to say "Well it's just $5." & subscribe. However, they can all add up to significant money.

[drift] I guess I shoulda known this, but I just had a real surprise on home & auto insurance. I'd been with Geico for cars & Liberty Mutual for home for years. Within a week we got rate increase notices from both - actually, Geico just sent me a bill & it was more expensive, but LM was polite enough to warn us. That made me shop around & I ended up with State Farm - certainly not a fly-by-night outfit. Comparing to the old charges, I saved 53% on home, and 58% on auto. IOW - more than cut the premiums in half. That's a couple of thou! I will now do comparisons every few years. Oh - the new coverage is slightly better than the old as well.

[Joe (SoCal)]

The Times was 50 cents in 1991 when I started commuting to NYC and I bought it on the platform from a coin box stand. There was a line of them at every station; The Times, The Journal, The Post and The Daily News.
The machines are long gone and last month the daily price went up a whole dollar to 4 bucks.
Used to be, every other person on the train was reading a paper and now theres maybe a dozen. I am one of only two in my train car reading a paper every day. Everyone else is staring at their phones or watching Netflix on a tablet....
Kinda sad really.

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From 1998 - 2009 M-F I would take the Metro North Hudson River Line from Cold Spring on Hudson to Grand Central Terminal. I would stop at the Foundry Cafe pick up my coffee & bagel and the NYT for the 50 min ride into NYC. On the way home I would stop at the Hudson News and pick up the NY Daily News and a tall boy for the ride home. Of course I had the Sunday NYT delivered. I miss that routine.

[Tom Montgomery]

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I easily spend double that amount of money each month at the local coffee house. I feel that the money I spend on the digital New York Times continues to be money well spent. I also have digital subscriptions to the Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Sandusky Register/Norwalk Reflector, and the Louisville Courier-Journal. If I start to feel a pinch I'll cut something else out of my budget.

[David W Pratt]

When I read it, I start with the crossword, then the quote of the day, then the letters, then the news.

[Gerarddm]

I would never give up my NYTimes or Bloomberg Business Week subscriptions, but the idea of paying less is nice. Hmmm...

[gypsie]

We pay $2 per month, locked in for a year. I guess we got a good deal!

Me too.
It's about to leap to Aus$20. I'll cut it off at that point.

[Jim Mahan]

I don't have any paid subscriptions. Instead, I log on to this one great website, and all these experts discuss the latest things they've read in the important papers, sometimes providing links, so I don't even have to look it up. I get all the important news, and analysis from people I know and trust. And did I mention it's free?

I'll take this oppy to mention an online news reading hack. When someone posts an article by the NYT or some other such subscription based entity, open the link in a new window, and as the page is loading, select 'reader view' and it'll give you the article without formatting, but with the pics, and without the advertising and without being dunned for reading without a subscription. Works in safari on the iphone and firefox on unix.

So thanx to all you who pay to read and then opine.