Paris (AFP)
Several daily newspapers including Le Parisien, Les Echos and L'Equipe took advantage of the passage in 2020 to increase their prices for newsstand sales by ten cents, which have already seen successive increases in recent years.
The Parisian thus rose to 1.60 euros on Tuesday, an increase of 10 cents which will finance investments to "maintain the quality of our newspaper and continue to distribute it in the best conditions", according to a notice to readers appearing in the New Year's edition. The national version of the newspaper, Today in France, went from 1.20 to 1.30 euros.
The economic daily Les Echos, which is part of the same group, also raised its price by 10 cents to 2.90 euros, citing for its part "increases in the costs of manufacturing and distributing the paper newspaper", according to a message to readers published Thursday. The Friday edition, which includes the magazine "Les échos weekend", will drop from 5 to 5.20 euros.
Same movement at L'Equipe, which now costs 1.80 euros, ten cents more than before (excluding weekend magazines).
For its part, the daily newspaper L'Humanité, which has just emerged from a judicial recovery plan, a little less than a year after declaring itself in default, reduced its price from 2.20 to 2 , 30 euro.
In addition, several other increases are in the pipeline, according to the specialized publication Union Press, which reports that Le Figaro will go from 2.80 to 2.90 euros as of Friday, while the weekly Le Journal du dimanche will pass from 1.90 to 2 euros (and from 2 to 2.20 euros with the Femina supplement).
Newsstand prices for most daily newspapers have already risen sharply in the past two years, partly due to costs related to the rescue of the newspaper distributor Presstalis.
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