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...unsatisfied appetite for news during the strike is reflected by a locust-like attack on anything printed. Newsmagazines, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications sell out within hours of hitting the stands. On a recent Sunday morning at a suburban newsstand, readers lined up in the rain to buy out-of-town papers. They brought folding chairs for the long wait; enterprising teen-agers hawked coffee and doughnuts. When 1,100 copies of the New York Times went on sale, they were snapped up in less than an hour. Five hundred Chicago papers, sold by scalpers at more...
Newspapers large and small are feeling the squeeze: last week the Wall Street Journal announced "a painful step," told readers it was reducing news, editorial and ad space and skimping on newsstand copies. Weeklies and smaller dailies that have no private mills, no huge standing orders with suppliers and no capacity to stockpile large quantities of newsprint were taking even more drastic steps. Some-like the Rapid City (S. Dak.) Journal-have already stopped publishing Saturday editions to conserve dwindling paper supplies...
...business. Once dismissed as a kind of red light district of publishing, the centerfold monthlies are now piling up circulations that were undreamed of a few years ago; Playboy and Penthouse, the ranking champion and brash newcomer of the field, alone account for an estimated 20% of U.S. magazine newsstand sales. From college dormitories to Army barracks, they are now a standard bit of Americana. To the obvious delight of the magazines' readership, their photographers seem locked in battle to zoom in on ever more explicit poses and privacies...
...Luce found boring). Getting rights to the great man's memoirs cost LIFE $750,000, not to mention picking up the check for Churchill's frequent vacations in Marrakech. Was it worth it? LIFE's circulation department found that the memoirs had a "devastating effect" on newsstand sales. But, says Elson, "Luce took a more elevated view. At a time when checkbook journalism was running strong and competition for the war leaders was fierce, LIFE landed the first one and, by all measurements, the finest...
...Budget. In a somber December message to employees-the second such Yuletide memo in two years-Sulzberger outlined the paper's major problems. The exodus of middle-class families to the suburbs continues to demand an expensive transition from newsstand to home-delivery service. In town, the number of newsstands has dropped, from 10,632 ten years ago to 8,052 today. If the Times is to reach an ever more widely scattered readership, satellite printing plants must eventually be established. Competition from expanding suburban papers has also hurt. Newsday on Long Island, for instance, recently entered the Sunday...