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Digital Subscriptions Bolster Newspapers' Slipping Circulation Figures - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The nation’s newspapers suffered a slight decline in total circulation over the last six months compared with the same period the year before, but they benefited from an increase in digital subscriptions, which now make up nearly 20 percent of all daily circulation.
  • Overall circulation industrywide is flat and digital is growing,”
  • The 593 audited daily newspapers had a 0.7 percent daily circulation decline, the group reported. The Wall Street Journal had the highest circulation, at 2,378,827, a 12.3 percent jump from the same time the year before.
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E-book sales are up 43%, but that's still a 'slowdown' - 0 views

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  • They now account for about 20% of all book sales reported by publishers.
  • That's up 4456% since 2008, when just 10 million e-books were sold.
  • "We've just reached a point of natural resistance — there are people who really prefer to read on paper even if it is cheaper, faster and easier to read on a device,"
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  • "We still see a steady transition in reading from to print to digital,"
  • • "Consumers have settled into their book formats of choice," says Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch. "Physical book sales will have a longer tail than previously anticipated."
  • "As iPads and other devices become more versatile and popular, more people are playing games or watching videos, rather than buying and reading e-books," says Michael Norris, an analyst with Simba Information, a market research firm. (A Simba survey found that 48% of iPad owners do not use e-books.)
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