Magazine Circulation Flat, Despite Soft Newsstand Sales

Digital sales are small but growing part of the industry

Average magazine circulation held steady in the second half of 2012 versus the year-earlier period as increases in print and digital subscriptions offset declines in single-copy sales. The figures were released today by the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations).

Digital replica editions, often hailed by publishers as the potential savior of the industry, represent a small but growing part of magazines' circulation, more than doubling in volume to 7.9 million copies, or 2.4

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