The current London and M25 print run will be extended to include the television regions Anglia in the East, Meridian in the South and South West, Central in the Midlands, and Granada in the North West.
The expansion of the tabloid paper will not affect the broadsheet, which will continue to be printed alongside the compact in each of these areas.
Clive Milner, managing director of Times Newspapers, said: "New readers have been attracted to our compact by the accessibility of the format and retained by the quality of the reporting and the writing. The compact has created a significant new audience for The Times and it has been extremely well received by industry and readers alike. The Times is the quality quality, whatever the format."
Launched in November on the heels of The Independent's tabloid version, the compact Times is reported to have added around 50,000 copies a day or 4% to the paper's circulation.
Not all of those readers are thought to be new, with some switching from reading the broadsheet version of the paper to the tabloid.
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