tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post8865223990802810257..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Short Story Wednesdays: Wilma Shore stories (a redux review): stories from THE NEW YORKER, STORY, F&SF, GALAXY, COSMOPOLITAN, SATURDAY EVENING POST and more...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36726197647128642062021-11-18T11:29:44.618-05:002021-11-18T11:29:44.618-05:00HA! After 17.5 years as a staffer at the downward-...HA! After 17.5 years as a staffer at the downward-slide era of TV GUIDE, I managed in my late-rising state to Not think of RD and TVG...<br /><br /><br />1972 2014<br />Rank/Publication Circulation Rank/Publication Circulation<br />1 Reader’s Digest 17,825,661 1 AARP The Magazine 22,837,736<br />2 TV Guide 16,410,858 2 AARP Bulletin 22,183,316<br />3 Woman’s Day 8,191,731 3 Better Homes and Gardens 7,639,661<br />4 Better Homes and Gardens. 7,996,050 4 Game Informer 7,099,452<br />5 Family Circle 7,889,587 5 Good Housekeeping 4,315,330<br />6 McCall’s 7,516,960 6 Family Circle 4,015,728<br />7 National Geographic 7,260,179 7 National Geographic 3,572,348<br />8 Ladies’ Home Journal 7,014,251 8 People 3,510,533<br />9 Playboy 6,400,573 9 Reader’s Digest 3,393,573<br />10 Good Housekeeping 5,801,446 10 Woman’s Day 3,288,335<br />▴<br />TABLE 9.1<br />THE TOP 10 MAGAZINES (RANKED BY PAID U.S. CIRCULATION AND SINGLE-COPY SALES, 1972 VERSUS 2014)<br />Data from: Alliance for Audited Media, www.auditedmedia.com/news/blog/2014/august/top-25-us-consumer-magazines-for-june-2014.aspxTodd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-83577568341743411672021-11-18T11:18:57.387-05:002021-11-18T11:18:57.387-05:00An interesting claim for Menand to make, but I thi...An interesting claim for Menand to make, but I think we'd need to see some circ figures. COSMOPOLITAN, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PLAYBOY, several of the women's service magazines, were or probably were at the height of their sales in the '70s (in their compass, F&SF and EQMM were selling better than they had or would again in that decade, and I believe it was the commercial peak for both MAD, NATIONAL LAMPOON and perhaps a few of their competitors of sorts).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-47870943869488648672021-11-18T08:03:41.742-05:002021-11-18T08:03:41.742-05:00I just finished reading THE FREE WORLD: ART AND TH...I just finished reading THE FREE WORLD: ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR by Louis Menand. In one of the chapters, Menand pointed out THE NEW YORKER was the best selling magazine in the United States. But, that changed after the 1970s.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.com