The Alliance for Audited Media released data showing plummeting sales for newsstand magazines -- down 8.2% in the second half of 2012, compared with just a 0.3% decline in overall magazine
sales. Leading the crash were young women’s titles and celebrity gossip magazines. Cosmopolitan was down 18.5% on newsstands, Glamour 14.5%, People 12.2%,
US Weekly 14.6%, In Touch Weekly 14.8% and Life & Style Weekly 19.1%. On the plus side, older-skewing Family Circle and Woman’s Day were
up, but both titles had cut back on their frequencies and are also relatively inexpensive.
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