I missed this announcement in the Free Press yesterday:

Beginning Monday, Aug. 11, the daily cover price of The Burlington FreePress sold in stores and newspapers vending machines will change from50 cents to 75 cents a copy.

The Sunday cover price for single copy of $1.75 will not change.

The rate hike hasn’t generated any comments yet on the BFP website, but it’s spawned a lively little converation over on Gannett Blog. I saw GB’s post linked on Romenesko, and thought I’d post it here for the local audience.

Not sure how I feel about the increase. It doesn’t affect me, since I don’t buy the Free Press. We have a subscription here in the office, but I’m more of an online reader myself.

This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...