Total Worldwide Average Paid Circulation
706,887

Worldwide Rate Base
665,000

Domestic Rate Base
575,000

SciAm Circulation

While other magazines are reducing circulation, Scientific American has raised its domestic rate base three times since 2000. SciAm readers are passionate about the magazine, and are willing to pay more for it:

  Net Average Subscription
Price Per Issue
SciAm Advantage
SciAm $2.23  
Atlantic 2.18 2%
The Economist 1.92 16%
Discover 1.84 21%
Smithsonian 1.68 33%
Forbes 1.20 86%
Harper’s 1.00 123%
Popular Science 0.99 125%
Fortune 0.88 153%
The New Yorker 0.85 162%
Business Week 0.75 197%
Time 0.58 284%
Newsweek 0.49 355%
 

Domestic newsstand sales top 100,000...more than Business Week, Forbes and Fortune combined.

Source: ABC 12.07