Faced in particular with soaring paper costs, almost all national dailies will increase their prices on newsstands in early January, by 10 to 30 cents, they announced on Tuesday, December 27 to AFP, confirming information from the specialist letter Mind Media.
The prices of “World”, “Echos” and “Figaro” will thus increase, during the week, by 20 cents, to 3.40 euros, like that of “Liberation”, raised to 2.70 euros. An increase of 20 cents will also be applied to the weekend offer (with an additional magazine) of “Echos”, which will reach 6 euros, “Le Monde” increasing its own by 30 cents, to 5.20 euros. The price of “la Croix” will drop from 2.40 euros to 2.70 euros from December 30.
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And the different editions of “l’Equipe” will cost 10 cents more from January 2 (at 2.30 euros on weekdays, 3.30 euros on weekends, and 4.60 euros for the weekend offer monthly including France-Football), such as “Humanity” (2.60 euros) and “Humanity magazine” (4 euros).
On the other hand, “Le Parisien”, which already increased its price by 10 cents in September, will still be sold at 1.90 euros.
Rise in the price of paper
In a context of crisis in the paper press and erosion of single-issue sales in favor of digital, newsstand prices have been rising regularly in January for several years.
But in addition there is a “historic increase in paper prices” and “industrial costs”explained to AFP the chairman of the management board of the Le Monde group, Louis Dreyfus, justifying increases ” indispensable “ to “maintain self-financing” and the “editorial investments” from Journal.
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“In just one year, the price per ton of newsprint has gone from 400 to 1,000 euros”thus underlined last week “Le Télégramme”, a regional daily which will also raise its price by 10 centimes at the start of 2023.
For his part, the publisher and director of “print pole” of “l’Equipe”, Eric Matton, ensures that it is a question of ” maintain “ the “journalistic quality” title in a “context of transformation”the sports daily banking on increasing its digital subscriptions.
