Magazines’ newsstand sales plummeted in the last six months of 2009, and subscriptions dropped as well.
Newsstand sales for the 472 consumer titles in the United States measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations declined 9.1 percent, to 39.3 million, in the last half of 2009 versus the same period a year earlier, the organization reported this morning. That follows an 11.12 percent decline from July through December 2007 compared to July through December 2008.
Let’s review: Magazines cost about the same as a paperback book these days. There have been 8.4 million jobs lost in the US during the current recession and the democrats‘ so-called “stimulus” act hasn’t done anything to replace any of them. I have to say that a drop in magazine sales falls under the heading of “not terribly surprising.”
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