Any way to find out a magazine's circulation?

BBCgalaxee · Jul 16, 2013

Trying to find out beckett's monthly circulation (baseball) from 2002 & 2003 to figure out the production run on those Donruss sample cards.

Couldn't get anything in Google.

Sent from my HTCONE using Freedom Card Board mobile app

tunahead · Jul 16, 2013

Some magazines print the circulation numbers inside the magazine, but don't have any Beckett's handy right now to check.

aupt · Jul 16, 2013

Publications mailed 2nd Class (as Beckett is/was) have to publish a "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation" around Oct. 1 each year. You'll have to check the Oct. or Nov. issues for the years you want. It's usually hidden in fine print in the back of the mag.

tunahead · Jul 16, 2013

aupt said:
Publications mailed 2nd Class (as Beckett is/was) have to publish a "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation" around Oct. 1 each year. You'll have to check the Oct. or Nov. issues for the years you want. It's usually hidden in fine print in the back of the mag.

I've got a few stacks of old Becketts at home from the early 00's, I'll check when I get home to see if I can find any info.

Austin · Jul 16, 2013

I would assume between home subscription and newstand issues, the circulation had to be in the several hundereds of thousands.
Beckett was still very popular in 2003 and the baseball magazine was sold at every bookstore, drugstore and retail store in America.

subject to change · Jul 16, 2013

I remember somebody calculated the print run on the Gold Samples years ago, and I believe they came up with roughly 25-30 per card. The gold cards were 1:10 magazines, so somewhere in the 200 range give or take a little depending on the number of cards in each month's set. The wildcard is how many of those copies actually survived. I'd imagine many were destroyed inside of unsold magazines at news stands and retail outlets. And even then many were just stuffed in commons boxes. I have found probably a dozen or so Sample cards from various sets in dime boxes at shows, though no big names.

tunahead · Jul 16, 2013

Well I checked my Beckett's from Sept - Dec 2000 and didn't see any subscription numbers in there

rsmath · Jul 16, 2013

subject to change said:
I remember somebody calculated the print run on the Gold Samples years ago, and I believe they came up with roughly 25-30 per card. The gold cards were 1:10 magazines, so somewhere in the 200 range give or take a little depending on the number of cards in each month's set.

probably a lot more than that. I have at least one (maybe two) BGS graded sample cards in my collection that were sent as a subscription premium. So I feel circulation gives a very rough number but probably isn't very accurate due to the number of cards that were slabbed and given out to beckett mag subscribers.

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