Daily Mail overtakes Sun as biggest-selling Saturday paper

News UK red-top outsold by rival by more than 20,000 copies in November, but remains the UK's top-selling title across six daysThe Daily Mail overhauled the Sun in November to become the UK's biggest-selling Saturday paper for the first time.However, the News UK red-top remains by some distance the biggest-selling UK daily across six days – a position it has held since overtaking the Daily Mirror in 1978.In November the Saturday edition of the Daily Mail had an average headline circulation of 2,474,439, compared with the Sun's 2,453,981, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures published on Friday.Across six days, Monday to Saturday, the Sun averaged 2,089,752 copies, against the Daily Mail's 1,755,308.The Daily Mail's headline sales figure includes an average of 91,277 "bulks" – copies sold to airlines, rail companies, hotels and gyms for a nominal fee and given free to the public. This is a marginal rise of October's bulks figure of 87,391. The Sun does not distribute bulks.The Daily Mail was only daily tabloid to increase sales month on month – and then only marginally, 0.10%. The Sun was down 2.83% compared with October."While we have out sold the Sun on Saturdays previously, this is the first time we have achieved better sales over the course month," said Roland Agambar, chief marketing officer for Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday publisher DMG Media."The performance of both papers demonstrates the strength of the Mail brand, the success of our... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Dennis Publishing is selling cars now

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[ Digiday | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Girls' basketball: Saturday's City playoff results and updated pairings

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boys' basketball: Saturday's City semifinal results and updated pairings

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook co-founder sells The New Republic to rich liberal publisher

After four years of running one of magazine publishing's great trophy properties, Facebook multimillionaire Chris Hughes has found a new owner for The New Republic. Win McCormack, an Oregonian... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bruce Springsteen Can Fill an Arena, But Can He Sell Out a Bookstore?

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What's Selling at Folio Books

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boys' basketball: Saturday's City playoff scores and updated pairings

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gossip Girl creator sells YA trilogy

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Daily Mirror publisher to launch 20p newspaper New Day

Cut-price title is expected to target the same mid-market audience as the Mail and ExpressThe publisher of the Daily Mirror is to launch a new national newspaper at the end of the month, just weeks after the Independent announced it was dropping its print edition.New Day, which could still... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Britain Newspaper Publisher Buys Block Island Paper

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