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# A Brief Flirtation with Daily Newspapers
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/08/a_brief_flirtation_with_daily_newspapers/
- Published: 2009-08-05T11:33:33.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:35:41.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: books, newspapers, Publishing, The Times

I’ve been doing something for the last few weeks that I don’t normally do: I’ve been buying a daily newspaper. And here’s why:

\[!\[Free Book with The Times\](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/08/IMG\_0980-thumb-500x375-1379.jpg?resize=500%2C375)\](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/08/IMG\_0980.jpg)

The Times has been giving away free Penguin paperbacks in selected outlets – I’ve been grabbing mine in Caffe Nero. And, frankly, 90p for a classic book is an absolute bargain. Today’s offering, \*The Big Sleep\*, is a book I’ve meant to get around to reading for \*years\*, and am really looking forward to getting into it. 

However, I realised this morning that I haven’t been buying a newspaper with a free book, I’ve been buying a dirt-cheap paperback with a free newspaper. And sometimes I just don’t bother to read the paper. \*The Times\* giveaway may have boosted their sales for a few weeks, but like the \*E\[vening Standard\](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/05/what\_a\_free\_evening\_standard\_did\_for\_me.html)\*\[ give-away of a few months back\](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/05/what\_a\_free\_evening\_standard\_did\_for\_me.html), all it has done is persuade me that I really don’t need to buy a daily newspaper.