Newspaper sizes in August 2005. Le Monde is in the Berliner format. The Guardian is in the British broadsheet format (or was, until September 2005), whereas the Daily Mail is a tabloid, and The Times a "compact". Berliner Zeitung and Neues Deutschland are of sizes between broadsheet and Berliner. A piece of white A4 paper is placed in front for scale.

A compact newspaper is a British term referring to a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format. The term came into use in its current form when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London's commuters, designed to be easier to read on the train/tube/bus. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1168x1760, 406 KB) Newspaper sizes in 2005-08 (August 2005). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1168x1760, 406 KB) Newspaper sizes in 2005-08 (August 2005). ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in August August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently a tabloid, first published in 1896. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... The Berliner Zeitung, founded in 1945, is an East German center-left daily newspaper based in Berlin. ... Neues Deutschland is a German newspaper. ... A comparison of different paper sizes A4 is a standard paper size, defined by the international standard ISO 216 as 210×297 mm (roughly 8. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... Commuting is the process of travelling from a place of residence to a place of work. ... For other types of train see train (disambiguation) In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route. ... For more coverage on London, see the London Portal. ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ...

Readers from other parts of the country liked the new format, with the result that The Independent introduced it nationally. Other newspapers (The Times and The Scotsman) copied the format as The Independent increased sales. All three newspapers are now printed exclusively in compact format following trial periods during which both broadsheet and compact version were produced simultaneously. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... The Scotsmans offices in Edinburgh The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper published in Edinburgh. ...

The term "compact" was coined in the 1970s by the Daily Mail when that newspaper went tabloid, although the Mail now calls itself a tabloid. It is often used to differentitate newspapers with more traditional content from those with a flamboyant or salacious publsihing style, even though they may share the same size. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently a tabloid, first published in 1896. ...

The Courier-Mail, the only daily newspaper in Brisbane, Australia, refers to itself as a "compact" since its change from a broadsheet format to the standard Australian tabloid size in 2006. The Courier-Mail is the only daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. ... Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the state of Queensland, Australia. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of compact newspapers

• United Kingdom
  • The Independent
  • The Times
  • The Scotsman

• Sweden
  • Göteborgs-Posten
  • Dagens Nyheter
  • Svenska Dagbladet
  • Sydsvenska Dagbladet

• U.S.A.
  • Chicago Sun-Times

• India
  • Mumbai Mirror

• Australia
  • The Courier-Mail

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See also

• Broadsheet
• Tabloid
• The Independent