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At a time when the industry is struggling, many newspapers rely on heavily discounted copies to prop up circulation numbers.
It shows all the discounted copies publishers sold during the second half of 2009 and how many copies they gave away for free.
The industry has drawn attention to this after the extraordinary "handbags at dawn" incident between Condé Nast's Vogue and Harper's Bazaar last week, when Vogue publisher Stephen Quinn accused Harper's Bazaar of "dancing with the fishes" by bundling discounted copies of Harper's Bazaar, ("inappropriately" according to Quinn) with two other National Magazine titles, She and Coast.
He added that to encourage early take-up, publisher Activision was offering purchasers of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games discounted copies of the Xbox One and PS4 editions if they upgraded within a time limit.
The album sold 54,000 copies in its second week, excluding discounted copies sold by Amazon.com, which Billboard estimated to be approximately 15,000 copies.
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