Blockbuster raising prices for DVDs by mail

By Cory Bergman 

From $8 to $10. Must… expedite… impending… doom. In response, Netflix shares jumped 9 percent on Thursday. As we recently blogged, Blockbuster is bleeding money and closing stores, and some analysts don’t believe it will survive much longer. Maybe that whole screw-the-customer-with-late-fees strategy really didn’t work out, did it?

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