The River Cities' Reader has been independently owned and operated since 1993. Currently the Reader is published in print as tabloid newspaper 12X per year on the last Thursday of each month, and is picked up on both sides of the river in the IA and IL Quad Cities at approximately 400 locations. Our website, RiverCitiesReader.com, is updated daily with locally written feature stories, event listings, news releases, reviews, columns, and editorials. In addition, we have a weekly email blast that goes out to approximately 3,000 subscribers with links to the latest updates on our website.