Re: New TV Guide a Sales Success! Sort of.

On 23 Dec 2005 02:16:32 -0500, wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx (William December
Starr) wrote:

>In article <1135259369.789562.70210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>"stonej" <stonej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> By law magazines have to disclose their circulation figures
>> (including subscriptions) once a year and print it in the magazine
>> itself (usually buried in the back among the classified ads etc.)
>> This is most often done in Nov. (for the magazines I read anyway)
>
>Just as a technicality, I *think* it's "magazines that want to
>qualify for special, favorable 'bulk periodical' postage rates,"
>not "all magazines."
>
>I could be wrong of course, but the concept makes sense to me: if
>it wasn't a voluntary "if you want this benefit, you have to reveal
>this proprietary data" deal such a requirement would probably run
>afoul of the First Amendment's freedom of the press clause.

FTR, DC Comics ships its subscription copies via a different class of
mail than the bulk periodical class specifically so that they don't
have to publish this circulation data.

-- Rob
--
LORELAI: In the movie, only boy hobbits travel to Mount
Doom, but that's only because the girls went to do something
even more dangerous.
GIRL: What?
LORELAI: Have you ever heard of a Brazilian Bikini Wax?
.

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