For years, it was always really difficult to get hold of proper US newspapers in Britain. Certainly you could get the International Herald Tribune, and also USA Today. But not The New York Times. Tower Records used to carry quite a few papers but they weren’t cheap and were limited to the Sunday editions. WH Smith in Sloane Square sometimes had a copy of the Times, and there’s a great shop on Old Compton Street that carries one of the broadest arrays of international newspapers you’ve ever seen.
But in general terms, The New York Times was a difficult paper to get a hold of.
Now of course, we can read the paper on the web but that’s not really the same thing.
Anyway, all of this preamble is a way for mentioning that The New York Times is now being printed in the UK, and you can get issues of it on the same day. I spotted our local newsagent at work carrying copies the other day (well a copy anyway). But the price is a bit steep – £3.50. And Sunday’s is available on Monday for £7.50!
Nice to know, but I think I’ll be sticking with the online version for a while. And of course Thursday’s Telegraph still carries some excerpts from it too.