Home Delivery

Home-delivery circulation is defined as subscriptions purchased by individual consumers for personal use. A subscription is defined as the purchase of more than a single issue of a newspaper, either in print or electronic format.

Home-delivery copies are often delivered to subscribers in one of the following methods:

Basic Prices

A basic price is the price that anyone can purchase a subscription from the newspaper at any time. A newspaper establishes its own basic prices and discloses them in Paragraph 5A of the Publisher’s Statement.

Basic prices may be established for the following methods of distribution:

• Mail
• Home Delivery
• Motor Route
• Single Copy

Within each of these categories, one basic price may be established for each of the following:

• ABC zone (city zone, retail trading zone, newspaper designated market, etc.)
• Frequency of delivery (Sunday-only, seven-day, weekend-only, etc.)
• Term (various subscription lengths such as one-month, 13-weeks, one-year, etc.)

Basic prices may not be established for specific editions of the newspaper or based on payment method.

Paid Circulation

ABC defines paid circulation as subscriptions and single copies paid at an amount of at least 25 percent of basic prices, net of all considerations.