This after the report that newspaper circulation has dropped 2.6% over the past 6 months.

New York Times just over 1 million and Washington Post 724 thousand? I'm really surprised. How could the figures be so low in a country with an almost 300 million population? Disappointed.

I think the biggest problem is that the larger base is reading their material online. I read NY Times, Wasington Post and serveral of the others daily, but all are from teh online version. I refuse to purchase a printed paper (main reason is I like to save trees) the other is I never read much on paper anymore.

I wonder what their subscription and ad revenue combined together bring in? Of course only couting their print readership since that is all these stats include.

The numbers due seem low, but then again I'm no expert. I too made the switch to digital information after 9/11. I use to save every paper I could buy for months after the attack to see how the news would change, then I realized it would be easier to do all of this digitaly.

Although in NYC advertisers and marketing companies buy quantities of papers in the neighborhood of 50 - 100k for up to a month to give away during the lenght of special promotions, those numbers count towrds circulation and not special deals.