Dee's search for bromance

[deelaundry]

Guy at Exxon station: We only carry newspapers.

Guy at Borders: No, we don't carry TV Guide. Try the Books-a-Million over in [town approximately ten miles away].

Guy at 7-11 #1: There aren't any over there? *pulls out three-ring binder with delivery lists in it* Oh, I guess we didn't get any this week.

Guy at 7-11 #2: You want three copies of TV Guide? Really?

Husband: Yes, OK, fine, I'll watch the kids so you can go find more copies of the magazine. Why don't you pick up dinner on the way back?

*hugs husband*

ETA
Grocery store: *copies of last week's issue*

Guy at drugstore: TV Guide? I haven't seen that here in a loooong time.

Blockbuster: *carries Vogue, Teen Vogue, Heroes magazine, gaming magazines, Entertainment Weekly, but no TV Guide*

7-11 #3: *Dee walks past cops talking sternly to some drunk-looking dude, to buy all but the last copy of the House-Wilson TV Guide* YAY!

Comments

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

It's just my luck to have my subscription run out right now. I'm hoping it'll be in my mailbox when I get back from traveling on Sunday, but if not, there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Arrrr.

[poeia.livejournal.com]

If your subscription has run out you might still get one but I wouldn't count on it. TV Guide only delivers an average of 1,200 copies each week for people who's subs have expired. They're the ones you get with notes like "you probably sent in your renewal already and we don't want you to miss an issue." But they'd only do it if they thought they wouldn't sell the # they promised advertisers this week.

I was running to 2 stores near here when I remembered that I had to buy it -- made a big loop through the neighborhood and found a newsstand with a couple of copies.

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

That's it - I'm buying the first copy I see. Don't want to take any chances! ;)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

That's what I'd recommend! Good luck!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Glad you got one! I wonder how this issue will stack up in terms of total copies sold.

[poeia.livejournal.com]

If anyone reminds me, I can check in late January/early February. That's when their Audit Bureau of Circulations "Pink Sheet" will be available. But, to be honest, I don't think it will be noticeable. Their rate base (promised sales) is 3.5 million and 95.2% of it was subscriptions and public place (the free subs they send to doctor's offices, beauty parlors, etc.) in the 1st half of 2008.

Single Copy (newsstand) sales averaged 157,531 per issue. While there can be a little fudging (rate base is promised on average sales so, if it looks like one issue won't make rate base, they move a few single copy sales from an issue with high sales for the report), newsstand accounted for 114,624 (June 23rd issue) to 234,708 (March 31st issue) din the first half. That's a tiny range for a magazine this big.

(Isn't it nice that I have my work passwords on my computer at home so I can bore all of you with this info during my vacation?)

By the way, I did check sales for the May/June 2007 Men's Vogue. Nothing interesting. Rate base is 300,000. That issue sold 90,045 on the newsstands (average for the 3 issues in that half was 87,977.)