The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it will offer new price discounts to newspapers and remove restrictions on the articles they receive, in response to newspapers' frustration and the news that some of them might leave the cooperative.
With their own finances growing steadily worse, many newspapers have complained about the prices charged by the A.P., a non-profit corporation owned by the more than 1,400 American newspapers that are its members.
After holding prices flat for two years, the A.P. proposed a price structure that it said would save members an average of 10 percent next year. That system offered members a basic package of written material or, for a higher price, access to all A.P. articles.
On Thursday, the A.P. board of directors, meeting in New York, decided to give the broader package to all members at the lower price. A small number of papers would have had a price increase under the new system, and the board voted to hold their rates flat, instead.