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More magazines launched last year than had in 2013, but nearly twice as many titles stopped publication, according to research firm MediaFinder.

With 190 launches and 99 closures in 2014, a net gain of 91 is ultimately a positive sign for the industry, which includes more than 16,000 titles in the U.S. and Canada. The pace of those additions has slowed over the last three years though. Two magazines were added for every one that closed in 2014—a ratio that had been closer to 3-to-1 in each of the last two years.

As the business has stabilized after a tumultuous 2009 that saw 428 magazines stop publishing and a net loss of more than 150 titles, net gains reached a height in 2012 with 145 magazines added. A slight drop off to 129 net additions in 2013 declined even further to 91 in 2014.