Read All About It: Newspaper Comeback
For one rare day, newspapers made a comeback. Across the country, people flocked to newsstands to buy a written record of Barack Obama's win. Having waited in long lines to vote, people then waited in lines to collect the historic front pages. The New York Times printed an extra 75,000 copies and set up a makeshift stand directly outside its Manhattan building. Earlier on eBay, the papers were selling for $149.
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