Are news stands that sell dozens of publications also bad for the newspaper business? I don't goto the New York Times store to buy the paper -- I goto the new stand where the New York Times is just one of many choices. The news stand may only offer a couple dozen choices and not 2,000 but there's a diminishing return at some point. I'm most likely going to pick one of the first 5-10 stories on Google News and that's almost always linking to a popular mainstream publication.