Thursday, February 19, 2009

La Muerte del Periódico

As I opened my SF Chronicle subscription renewal this morning, my jaw hit the floor.
Subscription price for 8 weeks Jan - Feb 2009 - $46
Subscription price for 8 weeks Mar - Apr 2009 - $62
That would be a 35% increase, raising the annual subscription price for daily and Sunday delivery to roughly $400.

The death of print journalism feels self-inflicted to me. $400 for a poorly written, editorially weak daily?

This has zero.. ZERO to do with online news.

I thought the return of the green "Sporting Green" was going to lock me in.

Adios, SF Chronicle. It's been nice knowing you for the past 30 years.

2 comments:

125records said...

A 35% increase? Check out what happened to me. I canceled my subscription, too.

Edmundo Delmundo said...

Yeah - you know I forgot to mention that some time mid year 2008 the subscription price went from $31.80 to $46. So within a year they doubled the price.