Most Widely Circulated Magazine In The World

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  steve2

  "He plainly made his point. Pamphlets are not magazines"

  Sorry, school teacher for not "getting" the exact point being made. "Plainly made" it was not.
  

  I rightly guessed he was implying it was a pamphlet - what he did not explicitly state was, "Therefore it is a pamphlet".

  I have referred to them elsewhere as "Tracts" or "brochures". So, beyond plainly stating the Watchtower is not a magazine, no other point was made in the OP - although you could generously imply it is therefore a pamphlet, tract and/or brochure.
  
  
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  BluesBrother

  The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published monthly in 300 languages[1] by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Along with its companion magazine, Awake!, Jehovah's Witnesses distribute The Watchtower—Public Edition in their door-to-door ministry.[2][3]

  The Watchtower—Public Edition is the most widely circulated magazine in the world, with an average print run of approximately 62 million copies bimonthly, as of 2017.[4][5] The Watchtower—Study Edition is used at congregation meetings, with an average monthly print run of around 15 million.[6]

  The above is Wikipedia..... no comment from me
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  ScenicViewer

  @ Vanderhoven7 who wrote...
  

  A lot of magazines are struggling in this era of the Internet. But a few are doing well. Many North American think the most successful magazines around now are either The Economist or O, The Oprah Magazine.

  For clarification, who said the above quote? It isn't in quotation marks but is it a quote from Watchtower itself? It kind of sounds like it, but I'm not sure.

  At any rate, this part - "A lot of magazines are struggling in this era of the Internet" - got my attention. Just a few years ago the Watchtower was sent out to the public twice every month, at 32 pages per magazine, for a total of 64 pages each month. Now the magazine is 16 pages and it goes out, not twice a month, not even once a month, but only every other month. That's a reduction of total pages from 64 per month to an average of 8 per month that are going door-to-door.

  From 64 pages down to 8 pages (average) is a tremendous drop, which raises the question, Why isn't the Watchtower "struggling in this era of the internet" just like other magazines? It's now 1/8 of what it used to be. It is clearly struggling.
  
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  fiddler

  They make great fire starters for the wood stove in winter 😉 Geese, talk about fake news! I'm thinking Watchtower gave the fake news venues a few pointers on how to bedazzle the gullible.
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  darkspilver

  A lot of magazines are struggling in this era of the Internet. But a few are doing well. Many North American think the most successful magazines around now are either The Economist or O, The Oprah Magazine.

  For clarification, who said the above quote? It isn't in quotation marks but is it a quote from Watchtower itself? It kind of sounds like it, but I'm not sure.

  Haha! its Canadian actually.....

  Vanderhoven7 simply 'copy-and-pasted' their reply from the Vancouver Sun
  

  http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/what-is-most-widely-read-magazine-in-world
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  NotBlind

  The Crotchtower 'magazine' is about as welcome as the flyers advertising payday loans they sometimes stick under my windshield wiper in the Walmart parking lot.

  The Tower Slave International organization is 'clearly struggling', too. Even with a 140-year-old network of worldwide distribution, eager slaves willing to spend their own cash to distribute their message, a slick website, and a free 24-hour TV channel, they only average 2 to 4 people to sign on for boobtism at an average circuit assembly (and most of them are pre-pubescent children or mentally challenged).
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  redvip2000

  "The most circulated"..

  Pff, what does this even mean?

  Do they realize that other magazines actually rely on people buying them? The Watchtower prints millions of magazines and then distribute them to all the members. Not only that each member picks up a stack of them at the counter? How is any of that impressive?

  I can also print 1 billion magazines in my basement and then give 200 million of them to each of family members. Does this mean my magazine is the most circulated?
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  darkspilver

  redvip2000: Do they realize that other magazines actually rely on people buying them?
  

  That's the point. They don't.

  The most widely distributed magazines are generally those given away 'free' as a perk of membership of some association, organisation or shop.
  
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  stuckinarut2

  Its a 'tractazine'
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  NotBlind

  It's pretty pathetic when they can't even get people to take their 'magazine' for free.