E-edition newspapers

[Greg44]

After having the printed newspaper in our home growing up and all my married life - we have cancelled our paper subscription and signed up for the electronic paper.

My wife is a bit hesitant, she likes to spread the paper out on the dining room table. I found myself for the last few years mainly just skimming it before work and
never really getting back to it in the evening. Current subscription rates are $ 55.00 for "about" 8 weeks, home delivery. E-edition is $ 7.99 per month or we
paid for the year in advance which was $ 49.99.

With my dd's family moving to the east coast this Spring - that is more than an airline ticket! I think it will be like when we cancelled our land line, a bit weird at
first, but we will get use to it.

What has your experience been? Anyone still subscribe to a printed paper?

I went to the paper office to settle my bill and change my subscription - wow - the building has and is being remodeled and offices are being leased out to
other businesses. It use to be quite operation - now you can hardly tell what goes on there. It was bought out by a big conglomerate this past year.

[Simplemind]

We still do. It is only delivered four days a week. We also have the digital version which DH reads every day. I'm not a fan of that format so I read the printed copy. Plus we have many uses for the actual paper.

[razz]

I get two digital newspapers and love it as a delivery system. My fingers don't get black from the ink either. ;) The delivery for the local is early so that I can read it before my day starts and the other arrives at 6:15pm for my evening read.

[klunick]

My husband was the newspaper reader in our house. We went from seven days a week delivery to Sunday only delivery to now we don't get one. We were the last ones on our Court to stop getting a paper. I honestly don't know when the last time I saw a paper in anyone's newspaper bins along the roads I travel. I guess everyone gets their news online or TV nowadays.

[Rogar]

I really miss the tradition of spreading out the paper for a morning read over coffee, but quality of coverage and reporting has gone down hill so much in my local paper that I don't do either. The electronic local paper allows a handful of free articles a month and unlimited free reading for the entertainment section and obituaries. I can browse the headlines and read an occasional article and that's usually all I need. I don't know if it's gaming the system too much, but if I reach my limit of articles I can refresh my browser and start over, but I don't do that very often.

[JaneV2.0]

I haven't read a newspaper for years, although I was a daily reader for decades. Friends just canceled their subscription to a little local rag whose yearly cost had gone up to nearly $500.

[rosarugosa]

We still do. It is only delivered four days a week. We also have the digital version which DH reads every day. I'm not a fan of that format so I read the printed copy. Plus we have many uses for the actual paper.

Yes! We get our local weekly paper, and I value the many uses of the actual paper in addition to the reading content. I'm never going to stir a can of paint on top of a digital publication! My subscription also gives me electronic access, so when local FB groups link to articles, I am not impeded by a paywall.

[Teacher Terry]

I went to electronic and eventually canceled all together.

[KayLR]

This subject is emotional and close to home for me as I worked for our local newspaper. It is a family-owned paper and ran 7 days a week until last week when it stopped Monday publication. They also laid off employees and deleted one press run so now you can't open the morning paper and get scores from local or national games that finished after 8 p.m. They are available on their e-edition to which all daily subscribers have access.

My husband and I almost didn't know what to do with ourselves last Monday morning with no paper. (ok, hush all you naughty-thinkers!). We sit together on the couch and read every morning cover-to-cover, saying, "Did you see this? Did you see that?" It's a personal ritual which I realize is going the way of the dinosaur. My grandchildren think it's weird that we get a paper and sit and read for an hour every morning.

This is just to say we will likely always keep a delivered paper subscription as long as they have it. This is how we get our local news. Also, I think we catch stories we might scroll by if we were only looking at the online version.

Then there's the comics, sudoku and Jumble....!

[Alan]

I read the daily paper every morning at work for years and also enjoyed the Sunday ritual of wife and I sitting in our recliners exchanging sections of the Sunday paper each week. Now, it's been several years since I've read a hard copy and I do miss it, although to be fair our local paper was downsized to about 2/3 scale about the same time my ability to read small print expired. Reading it now is not the same.

[Simplemind]

I feel your pain KayLR. I'm such a creature of habit that I can't drink my coffee without the paper and I can't read my paper (when it is delivered late for some reason) without coffee. The two go hand in hand and DH and I split it and then swap telling each other what articles to pay close attention to. My dad in the early stages of dementia always knew what day it was by getting the paper and seeing it. When we went down to four days he was still walking to the paper box every morning because he couldn't remember which days were delivery days. He always started the fires in the woodstoves with the paper from the day before. It is such a part of daily life.

[hana]

Had a print subscription of the Post until it kept disappearing from the front door so I switched to a digital subscription. I pay for the Post and get email headlines/breaking news from another nationally known newspaper. I use the 5 articles a month for the birth city newspaper to keep up on the local sports teams. Only time I read a print newspaper is when I visit my parents.

[Tybee]

I wouldn't read an e-print newspaper via subscription--dislike reading on the screen, so personally, I would keep my paper subscription if I had one.

Such a luxury.

Plus we make planter pots out of newspaper, so there is that.

[SteveinMN]

DW likes to spread out with the paper on weekends, so we still subscribe to weekend home delivery. That also gives us unlimited digital access, which is good because I much prefer to read on a screen instead of paper. (I also find that I find less I need to buy because I no longer see all the inserts/ads). There is an e-edition but while subscribing to the weekend editions buys us what both of us want, we won't bother with it.

[JaneV2.0]

I do 99% of my reading on line.

[catherine]

I read online also. I do miss the physical opening up of the paper, and I really believe that I read more and longer when I have a paper newspaper in my hands. I'm more likely to read random things in all the sections as opposed to front page headlines. So that's a loss. I also miss doing the daily NYT crossword puzzle.

But I don't want to pay for a daily paper, and I don't want to deal with the recycling.

[JaneV2.0]

There are books available: The New York Times Monday Through Friday Easy to Tough Crossword Puzzles, The New York Times Hardest Crosswords Volume 2: 50 Friday and Saturday Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain. I should get back to cryptic crosswords, and crosswords in general.

[Tradd]

I dislike the e-newspapers that are just a digital version of the paper. I much prefer a good app. The New York Times had an excellent one when I subscribed in the past. The Chicago Tribune’s app is awful. Even with a digital subscription, reading on the Trib’s website was horrid, full of intrusive ads.

I get my news mostly from the BBC website for international news or the local all-news AM radio station.

[JaneV2.0]

I like Reuters and Al-Jazeera, among others.

[iris lilies]

Every time our daily subscription comes up for renewal which is every few months, DH sincerely debates going on with it. The essential problem with us is that we don’t get reliable delivery. Probably one out of six delivery days are either late or nonexistent.

I stopped reading the newspaper years ago around retirement. The local newspaper is important for local news. It is not important for opinion or for national news.The political slant of the local paper is ridiculous, but that is probably a tertiary reason for dropping it.

I am on their digital site several times a week for the film discussion forum which they do not charge for. I know that their site is slow to load and clunky. I warn DH “You wont like the digital version it’s shitty.”

Tiny Hermann Missouri has a weekly newspaper that we subscribe to. We love it. We’ve been in it a couple times already with photo spread, so it’s one of those small town newspapers where everybody is featured sooner or later. One of the most remarkable things about that newspaper is there is one main writer, and the number of column inches he produces is absolutely astonishing. I can’t even estimate how much he produces but it is 8 to 20 pages each week. And he writes most of it. Also, as small town newspaper, you can write your own article and submit it which is what one of the leading citizens of the town did when she wrote an article about our mural.

[ToomuchStuff]

The paper I used to love was the Sunday paper, for the ads. When I was looking to work on some home remodeling project, I would buy stuff as it came on sale, then when I had most of it, start on the project, so I wasn't paying full price for anything.
Still do that on occasion as the online ad place I used, didn't tend to have building center ads, but all the other stuff. (and I find it quicker to look through the paper ones then download, then we pass the paper around at work.
Work still gets the local paper. Know most of the people that work there, and they were horrible about filling the curbside boxes, so those were taken out. Mostly it is for the obits, or fluff sports stuff. (goes around work, again)
Thankfully, his best friend, in NY, stopped subscribing us to their paper. (flooding the mailbox)
The big regional paper, honestly by the time major stories hit it, they have been out online, a bit.