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It has evolved into a weekly magazine that targets people with main interest in Business, economist student subscription, Global economy and Politics with above the average level of intelligence. Indeed it takes some effort to read and comprehend the Economist if you are outside the areas of business, trade or government economist subscription.
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The Economist magazine has a very loyal audience; the weekly circulation is nearly 1.5 million issues and almost half of them are sold in the United States; a major portion of the economist subscription volumes comes from other continents economist student subscription, mainly Europe and Asia economist student subscription.
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The publication is always facing criticism throughout its history usa today subscription, not to mention censorship attempts from political regimes. Recent criticism example is a claim that the magazine was clearly promoting ABM throughout it's running for Office.economist subscription One of the latest successful censorship attempts was the ban of the circulation of the magazine in 2006 in Iran usa today subscription, because of the mentioning of the Persian Gulf simply as 'Gulf' in one of the maps economist subscription.
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There are digital and mobile editions, an on line shop, and the ability to post classifieds on line and offline. However, the magazine fails to make the most of the Internet in terms of acquiring more subscribers, simply by ignoring the importance of running a separate global affiliate program; instead the Economist simply relies on itself, and on standard Web distribution channels (Amazon, magazines.com) for sales economist subscription.
