Quote:
Originally Posted by VaporPunk
Every year in the United States, over 2 billion books are published, 359 million magazines are published 24 billion newspapers are published.
Source: Purdue Research Foundation and US Environmental Protection
Agency, 1996
Source - That was 15+ years ago. Can only be worse today. |
Newspaper circulation is down, down, down. For newspapers, daily volume peaked in 1984 at 63,340,000 (
source) and was, in 2009 at 46,248,000 (close to where it was in 1945).
Magazine circulation looks mostly flat for decades but trustworthy data is harder to get a handle on. (
one source). That surprises me. I thought they would be in dire decline also.
I suppose the real answers come from the output of paper mills but even that is a little skewed because of the post-consumer content. I couldn't be bothered to find data on it.