But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries.Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways.
"Any upscale magazine gets mismeasured," Mr. Taylor said, arguing that because MRI uses an in-person survey to measure readership, few rich people are inclined to participate, and the Town & Country numbers are way off.
"Bolt's audience includes conservative retirees whereas the Australian's readership is younger, rich, better educated and working in the legal, political or business community,'' Mitchell said.
Expanding that lead by reaching out to a more mainstream readership could pay rich dividends.
And their instinctive "crossover" cosmopolitanism allows them to serve a readership base that is broader and richer than previously imagined.
Even though Marshall, Kinsley, and Alterman were trained journalists, their journalistic background was in detail rich long form articles in magazines with sophisticated readership.
Gratitude for all those at The Huffington Post for offering the momentum for all of us, to travel as a readership, to expand by all the rich content offered in each and every vertical, daily, minute by minute, editor by editor, word by word, idea by idea.
The wider readership is reflected among the middle classes by the rich development of the prose novel in the 18th century and, among the less well-to-do, by the large sales of almanacs and chapbooks.
While the population turned to the absorbing business of accumulating wealth — "To get rich is glorious," Deng had said — literary journals found themselves with a dwindling readership.
However, with English the preserve of the rich and the magazine priced at a steep Rs 500 ($5.50) the Hello! readership is likely to be small.
