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AZERBAIJAN
Top ten dailies (2001)
Circulation Readership Cover Price
Title Publisher (000) (000) US$ Format
Yeni Musavat Isa Qember 15.0 35 0.21 Tabloid
Azadliq Collective 7.0 28 0.21 Tabloid
Bizim esr Media Holding 6.0 23 0.10 Broadsheet
Xalq qezeti Presidential Administration 6.0 10 0.21 Broadsheet
Azerbaycan Milli Mejlis 5.0 8 0.21 Broadsheet
525-ci qezet 525-ci 4.5 18 0.21 Broadsheet
Sherq Akif Ashirli 4.0 16 0.21 Tabloid
Hurriyyet Vugar Mammedli 3.8 12 0.21 Tabloid
Yeni Azerbaijan Yeni Azerbaijan Party 3.0 7 0.21 Broadsheet
Xalq Cebhesi Bekhtiyar Qiblelioglu 3.0 4 0.21 Tabloid
Top advertising categories (1999) Top ten publishing companies (1999)
Advertising sector % of display ad revenue (ranked by total circulation)
Telecommunications 37.1 Azerbaycan
Food 31.0 Azerbaycan Ensiklopediyasi
Auto - Ismayil Media
Ayna Publishing House
Qanun Neshriyyati
Bakili oglanlar
Maarif Neshriyyati
Yeni Nesil
Elm Neshriyyati
Casioglu
Cover prices
US$
Single copy 0.21
Subscription 0.18
Newsprint costs
2001
Newsprint costs (average per ton)
Azerbaijan Manat 3,600,000
US$ 750
Internet publishing (No. of online editions)
1999 2000 2001
Dailies 2 - 14
Non-dailies 3 - -
Research
Readership is measured by: Journalists Union Yeni Nesil along
with the Centre of Sociological & Marketing Research
Methodology: Interviews
Taxes
VAT on: sales 0 advertising 0
newsprint 0 plant 0
composition 0 (standard VAT rate 0)
There is a 20% tax on advertising.
Ownership
Is there any law prohibiting daily newspaper or periodical publishers
from operating radio or television stations in the same locality No
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