Here is a fantastic question that came up from the post on newspaper advertising: Circulation vs. Readership Most newspaper ad sales people like to tell advertising customers the paper’s circulation is, for example, 500,000. The number of people who actually read the newspaper is always much less than the circulation. It could be as low as half the circulation number. Circulation and readership are very different and if you don’t know the difference, you could waste a bundle of money thinking your ad is reaching more people than it does. […]