More circulation numbers for LANG

Here are more circulation numbers for LANG's nine newspapers (still two missing):

Pasadena Star-News: daily rose 2.13 percent to 24,480; Sunday rose 0.34 percent to 27,133

San Gabriel Valley Tribune: daily rose 11.19 percent to 37,123; Sunday rose 2.29 percent

Whittier Daily News: daily rose 9.86 percent to 14,365; Sunday rose 0.85 percent to 15,118

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: daily rose 2.6 percent to 49,268; Sunday rose 1.3 percent to 55,277

San Bernardino Sun: daily grew 11.2 percent to 52,273; Sunday grew 3.9 percent to 57,150

Redlands Daily Facts: daily rose 5 percent to 6,940; Sunday rose 25 percent to 7,072

I have not seen numbers for the Long Beach Press-Telegram or Daily Breeze in Torrance.

As noted yesterday, the LA Daily News saw a 0.14 percent rise in daily circulation, to 89,093 papers, and a Sunday increase of 3.9 percent, to 97,000.

The numbers consist of print and online subscriptions to the papers. Last year, LANG launched e-editions of its printed papers (essentially .pdfs) and the strategy has bucked up the numbers for at least some papers. For example, the Sun would have dropped 3.5 percent in Sunday circulation if the e-edition hadn't been counted.

Are the e-editions subscriptions as profitable as subscriptions to the print edition?

Four in the evening

1. Los Angeles Times employees got a scare Monday when they arrived at work and found their ID cards wouldn't get them into the building. From Ed Padgett's Pressmens blog:

Why would employees think they had been let go you ask? Last year two employees were not notified of their job loss until they arrived at the newspaper. When their I.D. cards did not work, security gave them the bad news that they had lost their jobs.

(h/t fishbowlLA)

2. USA Today is the latest to offer subscribers an electronic edition of the printed newspaper. LANG launched theirs earlier this week.

3. What an emotional world. Clay Shirky says our penchant for instant news updates to be rebroadcast over social media sites "favors excitement over objectivity."

4. A study finds that newspapers salaries rose 2.1 percent between 2008 and 2009. Experienced reporters saw a 2 percent increase and interactive producers saw gains of 13 to 14 percent. It's not clear whether eliminating jobs might have boosted the averages.

LANG launches e-editions

In the ongoing experiment that is monetizing online content, the Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram and Daily Breeze - together the Metro division of Dean Singleton's LANG chain - have launched e-editions of their newspapers:

The E-Edition lets you navigate an exact replica of the printed newspaper. You can flip through pages and skim headlines just as you would with the printed newspaper in your hands. View articles, photos, games and comics with the click of a button.

The subscription is $6 for those already getting the printed edition and $65 a year for those who want the e-edition only.

No word yet when LANG's Inland division papers will offer the service.

(h/t LBReport)