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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
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. |
True about the newspapers. And its hard to find info on the % of paper used for books. I'm still convinced that an e-reader (or even a tablet) is greener in the long run than books, but by how much? Dunno. It obviously depends on how long you use it and how many books you read.