Newspaper Circulation continues to...

I read it at Samizdata. I followed the link to thelongtail.com. This is the really short version:

Percentage change in weekday circulation for a handful of the top 20 biggest US newspapers, Mar-30Sep2005 v. same period 2004.

USA Today - down 0.6%
The Wall Street Journal - down 1.1%
The New York Times - up 0.5%
Los Angeles Times - down 3.8 %
The Washington Post - down 4.1%
San Francisco Chronicle - down 16.4%

Don't get too excited about the NYT, that's less than 5,000 on sales of 1.2 million.

I used to love reading the left behind newspapers on tubes and trains. Now I won't read the rubbishy ones even if they're free. Neither will anyone else. The Times and The Standard got scooped up and everything else was left on the train tonight.

It's happening in American. It's happening in the UK. Thank goodness for blogs. We bloggers wear our hearts on our sleeves and supply links to our sources. If something sounds far fetched you can track things back and make up your own mind.

It's a new age all right.