The Wall Street Journal announced today that it is increasing its suggested cover price to one dollar per copy effective April 2, 2001. The increase, from 75 cents, is the first in the single-copy
price since December 3, 1990. The subscription price of The Wall Street Journal will remain unchanged. The basic subscription price is $175 per year, and was last increased in January 1997.
"Having
not raised the single-copy price of The Wall Street Journal in more than ten years, we need to take this step to recover some of the costs of creating a publication which has been dramatically
improved over that period," said Danforth Austin, general manager of The Wall Street Journal.