Buffalo News no longer printing a Monday paper

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

16 hours ago, Augie said:

 

We will need a daily celebration of life, just in case. 

 

The Atlanta Journal Constitution plans to be 100% digital by the end of the year. No more print, any day of the week. Think of all those young paper boys out of work! 

 

drag hearing it really. I walked my route until I could afford to go to pay off my first bicycle at western auto. put money down on it and paid it off, I want to say it took me close to a year. small town, wasn't like I walking the big city but big enough to know you put some miles behind you. along with the older generations that are now dying off, that too such as the old newspaper (among so many other things) dies off and fades in to the past. sad for those of us that lived that past and watching the future take over with AI, virtual assistants, hell you don't even (a chore I had to do along with others) have to vacuum the floor with the old Kirby anymore, just unleash that circular robot device and away it goes sucking up the dirt and it even find its way back to the charging station. 

 

25 years in to this 21st century, many seen this coming.

[MarkyMannn]

10 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

1500???

 

4 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

$1500 a year, delivered? Where do you live, Papua, New Guinea?

LOL West Seneca.  Last week I'm at my weekly old guys breakfast. I said it's like $900 and they thought thats crazy.  I'm then home and the renewal invoice is there.  $1,492 for 48 weeks.  Not even a year.  And thats expecting 7 issues a week, not 6

Edited yesterday at 01:10 PM by MarkyMannn

[Augie]

8 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

I get the AJC Sunday paper and this one really stings Augie—I’m weird like that I guess—I’m a Gen Xer but I love the experience of reading the actual newspaper and not endless popup scrolling on my phone. I figured the size of the metro market and healthy subscriber base relatively speaking would insulate the print version, but alas…

 

8 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

Sunday papers were great thing, big sports page, colored comics, a pile of ad's and lots of news and features. Why they haven't just kept Sunday as a print copy and made the rest of the week digital makes no sense.  The local paper The Elmira Star Gazette is worthless now, they mail it to you which shows how current it is and theres no Saturday edition you get the Sunday edition in the mail Saturday LOL 

 

It funny, but I’ll miss the crossword. Not the miserably difficult NYT or LA Times versions, but the one that comes in slightly smaller papers. The crossword puzzles geared toward people who don’t do crossword puzzles for a living. 

[LewPort71]

Local papers here in WV have a Saturday "Weekend" edition and no Monday editions.

Reading the paper on a phone just is not the same as reading a print edition.

 

Way back in the day, our Boy Scout troop  in Lewiston would have a paper drive as a fund raiser. 

We would fill a tractor trailer truck and  earn about $100 to pay for our camping trips.

This should go in the nostalgia thread

[Albany,n.y.]

12 hours ago, LewPort71 said:

Local papers here in WV have a Saturday "Weekend" edition and no Monday editions.

Reading the paper on a phone just is not the same as reading a print edition.

 

Way back in the day, our Boy Scout troop  in Lewiston would have a paper drive as a fund raiser. 

We would fill a tractor trailer truck and  earn about $100 to pay for our camping trips.

This should go in the nostalgia thread

Nobody is making anyone read the paper on a phone. I have 2 newspaper digital subscriptions & I read them on a 19" computer screen in PDF format.  I 

can't believe how many people watch things on little phone screens when there are much better alternatives. I tried watching a Bills game on a phone once with NFL+ & it was ridiculous. I dropped the trial right after the game. 

 

[ganesh]

11 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

Nobody is making anyone read the paper on a phone. I have 2 newspaper digital subscriptions & I read them on a 19" computer screen in PDF format.  I 

can't believe how many people watch things on little phone screens when there are much better alternatives. I tried watching a Bills game on a phone once with NFL+ & it was ridiculous. I dropped the trial right after the game. 

 

Also, pretty much everything in a Newspaper is available via YouTube and other social media.  The method of delivery may be different but the content is the same.

[Just Jack]

On 10/3/2025 at 4:23 PM, MarkyMannn said:

Thats great!  Just renewed my 96yo mother in laws subscription, $1,500 a year for the hard copy delivered.  She's not tech savvy at all.  So many articles in that paper, you read part, then directs you to a QR code.  Doesn't help her.  BTW that paper is Small....

 

I thought you were just throwing a number out there, but my god, that's crazy, $52/month...

 

Subscriber Services

Edited 2 hours ago by Just Jack

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Newspaper subscriptions seem to have gone the way of cell phone service plans.  Your neighbour is getting it for $19.95 a month, you're paying $39.95.  "Sorry, that is our absolute best price!" is what they say, until you drop the phone or the paper.  Then you'll receive constant calls offering low rates. 🤨

[Einstein]

On 10/3/2025 at 8:27 PM, PetermansRedemption said:

 

Never go to their website because of the bombardment from the paywall. 

 

Same.

[pennstate10]

On 10/3/2025 at 5:52 PM, RobbRiddick said:

What's a paper?

It what you put on the floor when you’re training your new puppy

33 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

 

I thought you were just throwing a number out there, but my god, that's crazy, $52/month...

 

Subscriber Services

According to my math,

$1500/yr is $125/month. Thats crazy!