How is Reader's Digest a barometer of the nation's health?
Circulation rates have been down everywhere, and has hit the hardest on non-intellectual magazines and newspapers. I am unsurprised that Reader's Digest is impacted. I would expect the same of other periodicals that are high in fluff and low in content (TV Guide, People, etc). You can't make money turning trees into crap when crap is getting less valuable and trees more so.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2009-08-17 06:31 pm (UTC)Circulation rates have been down everywhere, and has hit the hardest on non-intellectual magazines and newspapers. I am unsurprised that Reader's Digest is impacted. I would expect the same of other periodicals that are high in fluff and low in content (TV Guide, People, etc). You can't make money turning trees into crap when crap is getting less valuable and trees more so.