Europe 1 with AFP 10:07 p.m., December 27, 2022
Almost all national dailies will increase their newsstand prices in early January, due to inflation and soaring paper costs.
However, one of the national newspapers, "Le Parisien", will not increase its cost from January.
Indeed, a previous increase has already been in place since September.
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 to AFP on Tuesday, confirming information from the specialist letter Mind Media.
The prices of
Le Monde
, Les
Echos
and Le
Figaro
will thus rise, during the week, by 20 cents, to 3.40 euros, like that of
Liberation
, raised to 2.70 euros.
Ten centimes more for the different editions of "L'Equipe"
An increase of 20 cents will also be applied to the weekend offer (with an additional magazine) of Les
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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Also, 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 monthly weekend offer including France Football), such as
l'Humanité
(at 2.60 euros) and
l'Humanité magazine
(at 4 euros).
For "Le Parisien", a higher cost since September
On the other hand,
Le Parisien
, which already increased its price by 10 cents in September, will still be sold at 1.90 euros.
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 there is also 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" of the newspaper.
"In just one year, the price per ton of newsprint has gone from 400 to 1,000 euros", underlined last week Le Télégramme, a regional daily which will also raise its price by 10 centimes at the start of 2023. For its part, the editor and director of the "print division" of
L'Equipe
, Eric Matton, assures that it is a question of "maintaining" the "journalistic quality" of the title in a "context of transformation", the sports daily betting on the increase of its digital subscriptions.