Comparison of Top 10 Print Papers' Bloglines subscriptions

I decided to take the numbers* of print editions and compare them to a small percentage of online "subscribers,**" in this case public Bloglines subscriptions. First time, so I might not have subscribed to the largest feeds, subscriber-wise:

USA TODAY 2,272,815 6,533
Wall Street Journal 2,049,786 1,246
New York Times 1,142,464 3,793
Los Angeles Times 851,832 60
Washington Post 724,242 744***
New York Daily News 708,477 117
New York Post 673,379 70
Chicago Tribune 579,079 140
Houston Chronicle 513,387 35
Arizona Republic 438,722 115



*Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations as reported by USA today on 5/8/2006.
**Bloglines.com public subscribers to newspaper websites' front page rss feeds. If no feeds automatically detected, searched site for news feed.
***Could not ascertain primary rss feed. Chose most popular bloglines RSS feed.

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