[champion6]

Originally Posted by circletrack

The New York Times did a piece on the Sun’s rising circulation a few months back:

Print Is Dead? Not Here - The New York Times

I think I believe them a little more than villages online news and their repeated pot shots at the Sun.

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by eweissenbach

I have subscribed to the Kansas City Star online for about ten years, ever since they quit delivering daily to my rural lake home. I pay 99 cents per month and I get the paper on my laptop or Ipad in the same format as on paper. I get it the same whether I am in The Villages, in Kansas City, or on vacation elsewhere. Last week my wife asked me to pick up a print version of the Sunday paper because she wanted the ads. I took a paper to the cashier and almost feinted when it rung up at four dollars. I asked the cashier if that was right and then I looked at the masthead and saw it was. No wonder the printed newspapers are losing circulation between raising prices and curtailing their delivery routes. I have become a happy digital subscriber.

I'm also a digital subscriber for the paper up north.....but, it's not the same as having newsprint in my hands. I enjoy sitting at the counter for breakfast, or on the lanai or under a tree and reading The Sun. My question, I assume you told your wife, by decree, there was no way she was getting the ads? Of course I assume you could have visited your neighbors and get theirs before it gets recycled.

[Fraugoofy]

Newspapers are like books and phone books. Paper versions are on their way out...

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[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by JoMar

I'm also a digital subscriber for the paper up north.....but, it's not the same as having newsprint in my hands. I enjoy sitting at the counter for breakfast, or on the lanai or under a tree and reading The Sun. My question, I assume you told your wife, by decree, there was no way she was getting the ads? Of course I assume you could have visited your neighbors and get theirs before it gets recycled.

I hear you, I prefer the paper version (my best friend is the retired executive director of the Missouri Press Association), however I read it on my Ipad which is lightweight and I can easily take to the deck or lanai.
That along with the convenience of taking with me wherever I go makes it a no brainer for me. Oh, and the cost!

[ejgivens]

I love it, enjoy the relaxing time reading the paper. Great sports and local news.

[Rango]

[Proslayer]

Who Cares what the numbers are? You read it or you dont?

[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by Proslayer

Who Cares what the numbers are? You read it or you dont?

I'm thinking you care if you pay to advertise in it.

Other than that I agree with you. I read it...... and nobody puts a gun to my head.

[Rwirish]

Who cares what numbers are correct?

[natalierp]

Some of you say it offers no real news, if you want all the negative stories get The Village News that has all the crime stories the complete opposite of The Daily Sun.

[acstover]

Originally Posted by pbkmaine

It depends on what you want in a newspaper. It gives me a lot of information about people and events here and I use the ads all the time. For me, it’s quite useful.

I agree. It's informative, and I enjoy reading it at breakfast. If I'm in the mood, I Sometimes do the crossword puzzle. It's worth the pennies a day I pay.

[refeik]

Originally Posted by Kerry Azz

The Sun publishes no real news at all, I signed up for a one year subscription and after a few months realized it truly wasn’t a newspaper. So I started giving it to my neighbor. It’s worthless and not anything of value is printed on the paper it’s a waste of paper

I totally agree. When my subscription expires, I am finished with the Daily Sun. Politically, it is extremely biased.

[thetruth]

Originally Posted by champion6

Which numbers are you going to believe?

From the Online News site, Oct. 2, 2018:
"A publisher's statement printed in Tuesday's edition of The Villages Daily Sun shows the newspaper's circulation has dipped."

<snip>

"The 'Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation' appeared in 6-point type buried in the back of Tuesday's Sports section.

"It stated the newspaper's daily circulation as of Sept. 26 is 43,610. The publisher's statement from Sept. 25, 2016 indicated a daily circulation of 44,936. The publisher's statement from Oct. 1, 2014 indicated a daily circulation of 43,938."

<snip>

"Many of the Daily Sun copies that are counted as paid circulation aren't going to homes, but rather are complimentary copies made available through the sales centers and businesses such as Citizens First Bank."

From The Villages Daily Sun, Nov. 21, 2018:
"This week the Daily Sun marked its 21st consecutive year of circulation growth as verified by the Alliance for Audited Media, the industry standard for ensuring transparency among media companies and trust among advertisers.

"The Daily Sun is now the fifth largest newspaper in Florida, behind only the Tampa Bay Times, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post.

"The growth news comes while online sites struggle to win over subscribers and advertisers. The Daily Sun maintains a 92 percent daily market penetration, and 97 percent of residents read the newspaper at least once each week."

Quoted circulation figures are more important to advertisers than to readers. The numbers are audited by independent firms. Audit Bureau of Circulation is one of them. More readers, of the type you are trying to sell is important when a company decides where to spend their advertising dollars.

Readers, is another fuzzy number How many people read that magazine in a doctor's waiting room. hair cutting place etc.

As to on line magazines. Due to cost of printing, mailing etc and the fact that people have shown a willingness to read publications they are expanding rapidly. I think I heard that Condi Nast has decided to no longer PRINT GLAMOUR MAGAZINE and to supply it on line only. Interesting to me as about a year ago the PRINTED the biggest issue in their history.

FOR ME-I deal with what is not what should be.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by refeik

I totally agree. When my subscription expires, I am finished with the Daily Sun. Politically, it is extremely biased.

It is, and frankly does not cover news that "it" does not like...

HOWEVER, not a reason to be "finished" with the Daily Sun...It is what it is, and a great local paper which I enjoy reading daily. I do not expect national news and thus get it elsewhere but I do enjoy the local and have for years.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Kerry Azz

The Sun publishes no real news at all, I signed up for a one year subscription and after a few months realized it truly wasn’t a newspaper. So I started giving it to my neighbor. It’s worthless and not anything of value is printed on the paper it’s a waste of paper

You're exactly right! Basicly I dropped the paper too because I think it's about all advertisements for TV. You could take the news they do have in it & they could put it all on 3 or 4 pages. The local news they put in it is mostly old news, 3 to 6 months old. I just got tired of reading old news & advertisements for something I don't use or never will use. But you can't beat the price! But when I do buy a paper, I buy 2 different days that I like, 1 of them is Fridays.