Another sign of change: as of January 1, the company that supplies out-of-country daily newspapers to shops in the Netherlands is dropping the service, saying it was “no more economically responsible.”
Betapress, the distributor, says that it will continue to distribute weekend editions, at least for now.
The decreasing number of print newspapers and the ready availability of ‘news from home’ via internets may bring similar results to other European cities where buying papers from home has been a long tradition both for travelers and for ex-pats.
In recent years, the prices at newsstands have risen sharply, and the number of stands handling a full line has dropped in many cities. While most of the foreign newspapers have historically arrived from other European countries, an exception has been the long-running international edition of the New York Times, which is a continuation of the Paris Herald, published since 1887 as a New York newspaper printed and distributed in Europe.
