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Zoo Weekly sales update

Zoo Weekly sales information for several newsagencies suggests that while it has some fans it is not setting the world on fire. The best way to compare a new title like this is to compare sales to other titles in the segment: People and Picture are the closest comparisons. Sales for Zoo are running at between 20% and 30% of Picture. The data sample set is too small to consider this indicative of anything. In my view Zoo needs to identify a specific niche. In its present form I reckon it’s soft in terms of content of interest to prospective readers. This approach may be fine for the supermarkets. In newsagencies the title in in a segment where it is the soft (weak) product.

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