The circulation losses also follow recent sour earnings reports, raising questions about why anyone would want to buy a newspaper now.
However, the magazine suffered from heavy circulation losses and the final issue was published in 1996.
Publishers hope to reverse a decade of circulation losses.
But circulation losses continue.
Any shift away from newspapers could hurt newsstand sales in an industry already suffering circulation losses.
My hunch is that every daily in the country could raise its price to 50 cents and not suffer great circulation losses.
Most large papers showed slight circulation losses during the period, the Audit Bureau said.
The figures also showed that The Wall Street Journal reported a circulation loss of 2 percent, to 1,780,422.
Rodale has not been immune to the industry's circulation losses.
The average circulation loss for the industry was 2.5 percent.