The Kim Kardashian Effect Hits a Slump

The Kim Kardashian Effect — the remarkable positive impact of putting Kardashian on a magazine cover — might have seen its last days. According to the New York Post, this week four celebrity magazines  — Us Weekly, In Touch, Life & Style and OK! — featured one of the Kardashian’s, and all of their newsstand sales were down.

Us Weekly’s Khloe cover  and OK!’s Kim covers were both among the titles’ worst-selling issues of the year, while In Touch’s Kourtney cover and Life & Style’s Kim cover were both slightly down in newsstands sales.

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