Next week the Chicago Tribune will become one of the first newspapers to simultaneously publish near-identical versions of itself in broadsheet and tabloid formats. The tab version will
be offered for sale on weekdays at commuter stations, newsstands and in newspaper boxes. Home delivery subscribers will continue to receive the traditional broadsheet edition.
The
street-sale tab edition will remain priced at 75 cents. RedEye, the free commuter tabloid the Tribune launched in 2002, will remain unchanged. The Chicago Sun-Times, the
Tribune's tabloid rival, sells for 50 cents. The move is an aggressive bet that a switch in size will improve sales. Single-copy sales accounted for about 9% of the
Tribune's paid weekday circulation of 516,032, per the ABC. In contrast, the Sun-Times' single-copy sales represent around 60% of its 313,176 paid weekday circulation.
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