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Revenue from advertising and from subscriptions or sales of newspapers, periodicals and books, 1963 and 1964

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Revenue from advertising and from subscriptions or sales of newspapers, periodicals and books, 1963 and 1964
  1963 1964
  Net revenue1 from-
  Advertising Subscriptions and sales Total Advertising Subscriptions and sales Total
  $ thousands
Newspapers and periodicals            
Newspapers, daily 187,619 67,460 255,079 195,894 71,520 267,414
  Retail 96,419 - - 101,654 - -
  Classified 40,074 - - 43,164 - -
  National 51,126 - - 51,076 - -
Newspapers, national weekend 17,039 9,466 26,506 15,708 8,021 23,729
  Local 2,41S - - 1,864 - -
  National 14,627 - - 13,844 - -
Newspapers, weekly, semi-weekly, tri-weekly etc 24,879 5,740 30,618 28,483 6,301 34,784
  Local 19,215 - - 21,430 - -
  National 5,664 - - 7,053 - -
Controlled distribution weekly newspapers 697 22 719 922 76 998
  Local 635 - - 855 - -
  National 62 - - 66 - -
Magazines of general circulation 17,320 8,122 25,442 17,818 8,748 26,566
Telephone and city directories2 432 1,790 2,221 440 1,982 2,423
Trade, technical, professional and financial publications 24,933 5,561 30,494 26,400 6,825 33,224
Agricultural publications 5,617 942 6,559 5,551 949 6,501
Religious publications 338 4,046 4,384 463 3,250 3,714
School and collegiate publications 44 1,138 1,182 50 826 877
Fraternal publications 402 402 804 375 418 794
Juvenile publications 29 480 508 31 378 409
All other periodicals 1,485 1,838 3,323 1,424 2,669 4,093
Total, newspapers and periodicals 280,833 107,006 387,838 293,561 111,962 405,523
Books            
Books published and printed - 9,796 9,796 - 10,941 10,941
Books published only - 17,626 17,626 - 19,620 19,620
Total, books - 27,122 27,422 - 30,561 30,561
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1967.