Study: Unlicensed stories reel in Internet readers

November 13, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 2.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study being released Thursday.



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