A small outdoor booth or indoor kiosk where newspapers, magazines, and other publications are sold.
Compound of 'news' (from Old Norse 'nyr,' new) and 'stand' (from Old English 'standan,' to stand). The compound emerged in American English around the 1870s-1880s as urban newspaper culture exploded.
Newsstands were once the digital internet of their era—they democratized information by making dozens of publications instantly accessible to pedestrians, and their decline mirrors how the internet reshaped media consumption in the 21st century.
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