Re: Major Taylor

On Fri, 30 May 2025 18:34:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 15:24:57 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 12:15:03 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:46:24 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:59:05 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:47:36 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:25:00 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:18:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:36:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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Major Taylor made the cover of The New Yorker magazine.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-06-02
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He deserves more recognition than he commonly gets.

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An article in an obscure paywalled leftist magazine isn't going to get
him much recognition.

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Not really "obscure":
<https://deadline.com/2025/02/new-yorker-centenary-defies-magazine-downturn-1236296103/>
"The New Yorker with its 1.23 million subscribers..."

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In the USA, they're rated as 21st, after The American Legion Magazine
and American Rifleman, both of which are also obscure..
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Actually, all magazines are obscure, nowdays.

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Sorry, forgot  the cite;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation

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The Wikipedia circulation list is only up to date to 2016.  See the
"This article has multiple issues" box near the top of the page.
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This list seems a little better:
"Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation"
<http://www1.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf>
The New Yorker is 88 out of 100.  Not great, but hardly obscure.

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A million and a half subscribers in a USA population of 3.5 million,
and some of them are in other countries.

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You're off by factor of 100.  The US population for 2025 is about 347
million.
<https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/>

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Yeah, I know. That makes the subscription rate even less impressive.

The largest magazine distribution in the USA:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation#United_States>
is "AARP The Magazine" at 23.7 million per issue.  By issue, that can
be per week, per month, per year, quarterly, annual, etc.
"The following list shows the 100 largest magazines in the United
States by paid circulation as of 31 December 2023 based on data from
the Alliance for Audited Media".

3.5 million is smaller than 23.7 million, but hardly "obscure".

You might also notice that "AARP The Magazine" and "The New Yorker"
address different audiences with different number of prospective
readers.

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