The Guardian Moves to .com Domain

Re:The Guardian Moves to .com Domain by antoko on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @01:19PM (#6128440)

The Sun has consistently been the biggest daily in the UK for a long time, and I would suggest at least some of the parties have a majority buying that paper, historically the Mirror which comes in 3rd would be considered a more leftist paper (as was the guardian itself) and so would be much more likely to be a favorite amongst Labour voters.

The Mail hasn't had daily sales over 4 million this millennium. But since you apparently overestimate the guardians sales by 100% too I guess the point you're making still stands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unite...

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Re:The Guardian Moves to .com Domain by tehwalrus on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:51PM (#6129946)

apologies - I was given these numbers while training as a political party's election agent - I didn't know they were that stale!

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Re:The Guardian Moves to .com Domain by antoko on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @05:15PM (#6130111)

Thinking about it, they may be talking about readership rather than sales. People can pass around a paper in the break room or family members may read the same paper. I'm not sure how well they can estimate those numbers though.

Sales figures obviously give a much more concrete number for comparing paper to paper, but if you're trying to make a comparison to TV viewers or some other type of media maybe the readership numbers are more meaningful.

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