If I paid 99¢ for the NY Slimes, I would expect a dollar back in change...
The WSJ made the jump to digital without a problem.
All the other papers are going to have issues, becuase of this fundamental rule of publishing:
Propaganda is supposed to be free. Nobody buys it, because it is supposed to be free.
Either they start providing a value-added service, or they are going away like every other un-fundamental liberal business model.