Beginning in March, The Detroit News will be delivered to homes only on Thursdays and Fridays, while the Detroit Free Press will be delivered to homes on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Subscriptions for both papers will cost US$12 per month in Detroit, and $14 per month in the rest of Michigan.

Single copy sales will still be 50 cents, and $1 on Sunday for the Free Press. The newspapers will also be available for single copy sales in 18,000 boxes and stores across the state each day, and subscribers will also have access to online editions of the newspaper each day, according to the AP report, posted by The Chicago Tribune.

"We're going to have to tell folks the truth," Detroit Media Partnership CEO and Free Press Publisher David Hunke said of reader backlash to the plan. "It starts today. There will be very disappointed folks and we're going to try to deal with it as best we can, one-on-one."

Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of the Detroit News, said he believes the plan will "will break the cycle of buyouts and downsizing," according to the Free Press live blog of the newspapers' announcement.

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