The decision was made after someone called Amazon's attention to the Review's circulation figures.
And, wonder of wonders, it made money.Yet in a few swift years the Review's circulation and advertising revenues imploded.
In the first five years, the review's circulation rose from 20,000, with most copies sold at newsstands, to 83,000, of which 71,000 copies were sold to subscribers.
Christgau told me that, in the late sixties, Ellen Sander was writing regularly about rock in the Saturday Review (a circulation of 510,000 in 1967); Peter Winkler was tracking pop for the independent Cheetah; and Michael Thomas covered pop for Eye magazine, a bid by the Hearst Corporation to capture the youth market that began in 1968, published fifteen issues, and then folded in 1969.
Partisan Review's circulation never exceeded 15,000, but Mr. Phillips and his co-editor, Philip Rahv, kept it at the forefront of the great ideological and cultural currents of their time with an extraordinary knack for discovering hungry and talented writers and critics who were to make an indelible mark on American culture and politics.
PARIS — British auditors of newspaper sales said Thursday that they were reviewing the circulation of The Wall Street Journal Europe after reports that the publication had inflated its figures through unorthodox means.
The 350-page publication by London-based FIPP, the worldwide magazine association, reviewed magazine circulation revenues, the number of titles and copies sold, sales distribution, share of adspend and cross-border launches before delving into trends it tracked in 53 countries for its latest edition.
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No. 331, just to the north, was owned by William Ahnelt, a pioneer in the field of women's fashion magazines, whose Pictorial Review had a circulation of three million — before 1915.
