Cost of a single copy of "your" newspaper

I just called up the e-edition of Sunday's Miami Herald and learned the single-copy price is $3.99 for 296 pages. What is the single-copy price of "your" newspaper -- the one you work for or the leading one in your market and how many pages is it.

I'd also love to know how many single copies of it are sold.

 

Los Angeles Times, $3.66, 166 pages.

 

That's...actually not bad?

 

The White County News in Cleveland, Ga., is $1 for 30 pages.

But it's worth it for the crazy police blotter notebook, the list of arrests, quarter-page obits, the whacko letters to the editor from the same seven people, and the chance to win $25 in the weekly college football pick 'em. Plus, you never know when there's going to be a 1A centerpiece photo of "the county's largest cucumber of the season."

 

296 pages!? Good lord. How long does it take to paginate that thing? And how proud is the reporter who spends a couple of hours pulling together a story to run on Page M34?

 

That's weird. I've worked on all 28 of McClatchy's other papers, and nothing was close to 296 pages. Not even accounting for 48-page TV books and the like.

 

Some papers that are part of a chain include more than one newspaper in their daily e-Edition. Example from Washington state: The Yakima Herald-Republic is owned by the the Seattle Times, and when the Sunday e-Editions of both pop up online, it’s often close to 300 pages.

Also, tabloid sections like the weekly entertainment guide or TV guide can add 50-60 pages to the e-Edition page count.

 

And to address the OP’s question … single issue price should be tied to the number of pages in the print edition.

Yakima Herald-Republic: $2 for the daily edition, which is usually 24-30 pages. Sunday edition is $3, which ranges from 40 to 50 pages. Not counting the 24-page TV guide tabloid.

 

The Miami Herald's A section begins with 20 pages of news, followed by four pages of business, ending with a full-page ad.

Sports is next in the A section. The cover consists of staff-written stories on the Miami Heat, Marlins and University of Miami football team and a Greg Cote column. Five more pages of sports follow. The only additional staff-written content is a Barry Jackson local notes column and a Marlins gamer. (There's also a full-page ad.)

A two-page ad, a house ad with a message from the executive editor about the additional staffing coming to the Herald, a page of news wire copy, one page of paid obituaries, two pages of classified ads, a page devoted to a tennis roundup and weather. The back page consists of two car ads.

More on the rest of the paper later.

 

Last I checked the Boston Globe was $3 or $4 daily and $6 on Sunday. You might get 100 pages on Sunday — might. That was a couple years ago, so it’s surely gone up.

 

Daily News, "Serving the San Fernando and surrounding valleys," $2.50, 68 pages, including the 12-page Parade magazine, four pages of comics and an eight-page Homes section, all ads, except for a "Judge Parker" comic strip.

 

The Birmingham News was $5 for the Sunday edition at the store last night. Didn’t count pages but it was about as thick as a good Wednesday paper from 20 years ago. I counted five sections of editorial, and per company policy everything with an employee’s byline has already been up on AL.com (and no longer receives more than a spell check for editing, if that.)

Pass.