Readership was not BYTE's problem. BYTE's circulation was about half a million, which is quite large for any computer magazine and especially for a publication as technical as BYTE. The subscription renewal rate was nearly 80 percent, which is astronomically high. Most computer magazines won't reveal their renewal rates because it's often less than half that much. BYTE's single-copy (newsstand) sales were not as high as we would have liked, but they were running near the industry average. Note that BYTE's circulation of about 500,000 was only for the English-language North America and International editions. That figure did not include the 20 foreign-language editions of BYTE published under license around the world. Some of those magazines (such as Nikkei BYTE in Japan) are still being published. Unfortunately, some licensees, such as BYTE Germany, died shortly after their prime source of content (BYTE USA) dried up.