Talk:Newspaper circulation

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I think there should be a distinction between paid and free circulation. Tabloids are defined as often having free circulation. If all these numbers are paid circulation, that should be noted.

What sources should be used to update circulation information (e.g. for the UK and Japan)? Are these sources using comparable criteria? NealMcB 14:08, 2004 Jul 2 (UTC)

Interesting: Wall street journal official circulation up due to on-line numbers - very close to USA today: [1] NealMcB 16:43, 2004 Jul 2 (UTC)

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[edit] The Economist: 1 Million

According to a full-page ad recently in The Economist, theyre worldwide circulation is above 1,000,000. Their format is a magazine but they call themselves a newspaper.

[edit] The Economist has passed the 1,000,000 mark

The publisher announced in the newspaper's 5th March 2005 issue that "the weekly global circulation of The Economist has passed the 1,000,000 mark" for the first time, with sales for July-December 2004 averaging 1,009,759 each week.

- wikipedia.org/the_economist

Does anyone have data for other weekly newspapers, so that we can create another list? Pcb21| Pete 08:02, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paper size

Back on 30 May 2003 this was noted, rather arbitrarily, only for five UK tabloids. Why has this not changed? We should give this information either for all of them or for none of them. -- Smjg 09:39, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Way out of cdate

This had 3-year-old data! I've updated the US papers and put them in a separate category. There is not reason to limit this to English-language papers, either; Japanese papers whomp these figures easily. - DavidWBrooks 22:13, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Market Penetration by country

It would be nice to collect figures on newspaper market penetration in a selection of countries. Two that I know off hand are US is 53% and Ireland is 190% (meaning that the average household in Ireland buys 1.9 daily papers every day.) Anybody know any more, or know of a source for these stats? Seabhcán 11:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

UK circulation is 12.2m Daily and 13.4m Sunday. [2] UK has 24m households. [3]. Market Penetration is thus 51%. Seabhcán 12:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
"The French press comprises about 15,000 titles (newspapers and magazines together), with a total circulation per issue of about 140 million. Its approximately 135 daily newspapers print about 12 million copies a day, a figure that has not fluctuated significantly since the mid-1950s."[4] Seabhcán 13:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Germany: "Germany ranks seventh in Europe behind Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and England; 78 percent of Germans read a newspaper every day, on average for thirty minutes.", "The 331 local and regional subscription newspapers have the widest circulation, with 16.1 million copies, followed by the eight newspapers that can be bought on the street, with 5.4 million copies." [5] Seabhcán 15:11, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Magazine circulation

I've redirected Magazine circulation to this article, as it is used by a {{Infobox Magazine}} and having a redlink is awkward. As both newspapers and magazines are quite similar, being audited in the US by ABC and having comparable paid subscriber and newsstand sales breakdowns, does anyone have any objection to rewriting this article to handle both? If there is a significant difference, that would make a difference, but I'm not sure for our purposes it matters; certainly both articles would be largely identical. --Dhartung | Talk 04:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem with the two being rolled into a single article, but I think it would need a new title, rather than implying magazine distribution is some kind of subset of newspaper distribution. Major differences include the role of postal subscriptions for magazines, and the completely different nature of free newspapers (distributed door-to-door or via bins) and free, but controlled-circulation, magazines delivered by mail. Barnabypage 13:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Forgot to mention that I have since created a stub article, magazine circulation. Barnabypage 13:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Figure check

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newspaper_circulation&diff=prev&oldid=129199960

This edit looks suspicious to in the light of other edits from the same IP.

Inclined to be suspicious too, but on the other hand it is plausible. https://rni.nic.in/ looks like it should have a circulation figure but I can't locate it - maybe you'll have more luck than me? Barnabypage 13:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)