Newspapers Increase Prices

sataction

The Irish Examiner and Irish Independent are back up in price to euro 1.90 each weekday.

So much for the decrease due to lowering of the VAT rate, did not last very long.

They will be 2.00 each by the end of next year, and their circulation will continue to fall.

The Examiner will soon have a circulation of less than 40,000 and will probably not exist as a newspaper in 10 years.

pog it

It represents bad value as it is and I agree that any price hikes will damage their circulation in a big way. 1.50 is enough for the Indo.

craoltoir

Can the Times be far behind?

thebigcheese22

If you live near a university then I'd recommend getting them in there.... Irish Times and Indo are 80 c, and the Financial Times 63 c in UCC

Snickers Man

..then again there's this thing called the Interweb.....

Tiocfaidh Armani

What annoys me is how the same papers in Britain cost so much less. The Sun (wouldn't wipe my hole with it) is 30p in the UK, yet is about three times that in Ireland for the same garbage:eek:

LFC5Times

The Irish Times increasing the cover price of their paper on Mon 12th Dec - 5c increase Mon to Fri and 10c increase on Saturdays.

Bit of a joke really.

Anyone got a link to the profit/loss of the Irish Times for the last few years along with circulation figures?

Cheers

IRE60

Matthew 7:7
(but not at the first go, thus the next post!)

IRE60

again!

jmcc

IRE60 wrote: »

again!

Looks like it might go through the 100K circulation floor in the next few months. The SBP's new web venture might hit them hard on the business readership.

Regards...jmcc

IRE60

952 copies from being sub 100k - nearly assured of going south.

6,000 of their sales are 'regular bulks' - so the hand in pocket mob = 91,908

Are they already there?!

LFC5Times

On the profit front, is that €1.06m profit for the latest recorded figure?

Lapin

Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »

What annoys me is how the same papers in Britain cost so much less. The Sun (wouldn't wipe my hole with it) is 30p in the UK, yet is about three times that in Ireland for the same garbage:eek:

No VAT on newspapers in the UK.

Although, that still doesn't count for the full difference in price.

IRE60

2010

The profits + losses are ver much tied to their other investments - the '08 disaster was in part due to revaluing investments as well as a downturn in sales.

LFC5Times

The IT really are going full pelt on their home delivery service - with free delivery.

This really must be to the annoyance of the shops, news vendors and newspaper boys.

They were bombarding my area this morning with free Irish Times trying to get people to sign up for free home delivery.

At the end of the day most of the people that would sign up for their home delivery would already have read the IT and got it in the local shop or from a local newspaper boy etc.

jmcc

LFC5Times wrote: »

The IT really are going full pelt on their home delivery service - with free delivery.

This really must be to the annoyance of the shops, news vendors and newspaper boys.

That's cannibalising their supply chain. Not a good move but then this is the Irish Times, the well known property and internet experts.

Regards...jmcc

another native

The Irish Times Saturday publication has gone from 80c to €2.25 at the Student Centre shop in UCC. I declined to buy .... one less long-term reader for the greedy Times. Monday to Fridays' papers will remain at 80c each.

IRE60

They are a business, not a subsidy to the education system

Sam V Smith

I buy the "I" newspaper in the UK for 20p - otherwise I get the perfectly worthy London Evening Standard for free...

I won't bother with anything over 20p as I have an application on my phone which delivers about 20 different newspaper / news / and magazine stories direct to the screen in a far better and streamlined format.... and of course IT'S FREE.

1huge1

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

If you live near a university then I'd recommend getting them in there.... Irish Times and Indo are 80 c, and the Financial Times 63 c in UCC

The first 2 are the same price in UL but I pay over €2 for the Financial Times, hmm

INCONFIDENCE

LFC5Times wrote: »

The Irish Times increasing the cover price of their paper on Mon 12th Dec - 5c increase Mon to Fri and 10c increase on Saturdays.

Bit of a joke really.

Anyone got a link to the profit/loss of the Irish Times for the last few years along with circulation figures?

Cheers

The above quote is from 2011 , this year again they have increased their price , on Christmas Eve by 10c . Someone had to pay for the new look

Cynical stroke to reward all the loyal listeners on Christmas Eve.

JTMan

Devious doing a price increase on the sly on Christmas Eve.

Another reason to expect a large circulation decrease in 2013 for the IT.

chinwag

Only noticed the 10 cent price increase today on IT when I bought the paper on its own - I missed their price increase notice on the Christmas Eve edition. Will just have to cut back on buying it even more as papers have become quite expensive. Don't know if other titles have done the same. Seems a self defeating move with less people buying papers in recent times.

EricPraline

Meanwhile looks like both the IT and Indo are going to paywall their online content. Can't see this going well for them.

Having concluded that advertising-only digital revenue models don’t add up, both dailies plan to erect paywalls in 2013.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1227/1224328191589.html

JTMan

chinwag wrote: »

Don't know if other titles have done the same.

A lot of the Sunday titles have been gradually creeping up in price in 10 cent increments. This only further damages circulation.

The Evening Herald is one exception where the price was cut a while ago.

JustinDee

You get what you pay for.
The Irish Times and other such prints are businesses. Not giveaways or wire services.

Aquarius34

They should up the prices more, most papers are paid to lie, and we pay to read lies. Which to me is hilarious. So perhaps if the prices go sky high maybe we'll stop reading them?

Even the Irish times, has gone way down the potty in recent years. It's actually like reading the sun newspaper with all the pictures and big headline non important stories.

SebBerkovich

I like the Irish Times, i read it most weekdays and i think 2 quid is a fair price for it. surely i can't be the only one.

Aquarius34

SebBerkovich wrote: »

I like the Irish Times, i read it most weekdays and i think 2 quid is a fair price for it. surely i can't be the only one.

Why?

IRE60

Aquarius34 wrote: »

Why?

Well because its his two quid and if he wants to buy the IT then its his privilege ...........