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Dear readers: We’re settling in for the Thanksgiving holiday. Posting over the next couple of days could be fairly described as “sporadic,” or “spotty.” We’ll be back in full effect on Monday.
Archives: November 26, 2008
More on Kindle: Seattle, San Jose doing well; Houston not so much
Martin Langeveld points out in the comments to my post on the New York Times’ Kindle subscribers that there is a way to put newspaper Kindle subscriptions in the context of all content purchased for the device.
The chart below shows all American newspapers with a Kindle edition. The first column of numbers is how subscriptions to that newspaper rank among all the things (mostly books) you can buy on the Kindle. For example, the New York Times is the 27th most popular thing Kindle users buy. The next column is the newspaper’s most recent print circulation totals, from October. (I couldn’t find Austin’s or the Investor’s Business Daily’s anywhere online — let me know if you know them.)
Now, these numbers are awfully opaque; there’s no way to know how many Kindle subscriptions 792nd place earns the San Francisco Chronicle. But there are a couple conclusions you can draw:
