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Return study
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The quiet metric
Readers fade before they leave.
A return-rate study, traced across the first year.
Readers returning after their first reading
Return rate moves from 94 percent on the first reading to 49 percent after one year.
100
75
50
25
0
94%
88%
76%
63%
49%
First read
30 days
90 days
180 days
One year
Return rate after the first reading · the long goodbye is gradual.
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