{"id":915,"date":"2008-10-18T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/10\/18\/915\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:01:29","slug":"newspaper-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/newspaper-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDelivering the News<\/a>
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If you buy a newspaper in a shop in Denmark, you’ll notice it’s much dearer than in the UK (\u00a32-3 for a quality newspaper, rather than 60p-\u00a31.20).<\/p>\n

That’s because most people in Denmark subscribe to their daily newspaper, which is much cheaper (often less than half the price).<\/p>\n

When you subscribe to a newspaper, the publisher will arrange delivery straight to your home, and in cities this is guaranteed to happen before 6.30am so that you can have it before you go to work.<\/p>\n

So when I moved to Scotland, I was more than a little surprised and annoyed to discover that you can’t just call the Herald and get them to send you the newspaper every morning at half the price.<\/p>\n

I’ve since discovered that many corner shops will deliver your newspaper to your home, but that doesn’t save you any money.<\/p>\n

Also, some newspapers will let you subscribe, but that works by giving you vouchers that you can use to buy your paper in the shop.<\/p>\n

Why don’t British newspapers realise that they can increase sales significantly and increase profits (by cutting out the shops) by introducing the Danish system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delivering the News Originally uploaded by CaZaTo Ma If you buy a newspaper in a shop in Denmark, you’ll notice it’s much dearer than in the UK (\u00a32-3 for a quality newspaper, rather than 60p-\u00a31.20). That’s because most people in Denmark subscribe to their daily newspaper, which is much cheaper (often less than half the price). When you subscribe to a newspaper, the publisher will arrange delivery straight to your home, and in cities this is guaranteed to happen before 6.30am so that you can have it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}