I must make a correction:
I've found that the 1.9 figure for 2006 is the growth in the peak number of publishers.
The actual growth for 2006 is 1.6%!
My sources got the other numbers right, but now I see they miscalculated the increase. They compared 2005's peak with 2006's. The peak for 2005 was 6,613,829. For 2006, it was 6,741,444. So it was a 1.9% growth. But the number that has any real validity is the average number of publishers: in this case, the percentage is 1.6, the number found in the official report. This number is exactly within the margin I though it would be.
Too bad for them. They can't score like they used to. Their decline is undoubtly confirmed.
Midget-Sasquatch posted the Official Report straight from the WT magazine in another thread.
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