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More bad news reaches the magazine world: Newsstand sales plummeted in the second half of 2008. Among the hardest-hit were Redbook and O, The Oprah Magazine. Bauer celeb titles In Touch and Life & Stylewere also significantly down, as were AMI's Star and the National Enquirer. One publication that's doing okay, however, is The Week, which saw a 7.5 percent jump in circulation...
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