[Kadin]

I used to do the same thing, but the papers were free and left out in bins by the cafeteria entrance. I think lots of people will pick up a paper and read it while they drink coffee or eat lunch (even if it's just for the crossword or funnies).

But newspapers are interested, obviously, in who will actually buy it. And I'm not sure that those free subscriptions in college really translated into many post-college sales, at least not immediately.

FWIW, I do subscribe to two papers now, one daily and one just Sundays. The daily is for news, the Sunday is for the coupons. (Coupons pay for the paper many times over if you use them.) The daily was absurdly cheap when I bought the subscription ... less than a dime or so a day IIRC. It won't be that cheap when the subscription runs out so I doubt I'll renew. Most days I don't read it and I feel bad about all the waste.