AAM: Newsstand a Drag On Circ as Digital Rises (UPDATED):
The magazine publishing industry got some mixed news on Wednesday, with the Alliance for Audited Media reporting that overall newsstand sales dropped 8.2 percent for the second half of 2012. Though publications sold at retail did not fare well, the industry’s digital business is on the rise, with more than 280 magazine reporting more than 7.9 million digital replica editions—double the amount when compared to the second half of 2011, but still is just 2.4 percent of total average circulation.
