With long-term trends exerting downward pressure on magazines' ad-page sales and newsstand appeal, two of the industry's biggest publishers said last week that they had formed a joint venture to handle back-office operations such as production, procurement and circulation.The competitors and now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has continued the expansion of its Global Publishing Program with the creation of HarperCollins Italia. Harlequin Mondadori, which has operated in Italy for 34 years and was formerly a joint venture with Harlequin Enterprises and Mondadori Libri, will now be fully owned by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild of America has launched a Fair Contract Initiative to “address the major inequities in many boilerplate contract terms today” and educate authors on what terms they can negotiate on. The initiative, announced on Friday (28th May) at BEA, aims to “restore balance to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joint venture between US site and Axel Springer will also publish 30,000-copy print edition in Brussels, London, Paris and BerlinThe European arm of Politico will go live online on 21 April with more than 40 journalists spread across the continent as the US media outlet aims to fulfil its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucky magazine, the women's shopping title that was once a blockbuster success for Conde Nast, laid off about 10 staff members this week. One person with knowledge of the matter said nearly 15 employees were let go. A Lucky spokeswoman, however, put the number at "less than 10."The spokeswoman... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bono, Colm Tóibín, Paul McCartney and Salman Rushdie are among the big names contributing to an anthology about sons and fathers, as part of a joint venture between Hutchinson and The Irish Hospice Foundation. Jason Arthur, publisher of Hutchinson, Heinemann and Windmill, agreed a joint-venture... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The joint venture will create a publishing group of 1.5 billion euros in sales, and 13,000 employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House division Cornerstone is to take over trade publication of titles crowd-funded by start-up Unbound, after the two companies agreed a joint venture deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Conde Nast ended years of speculation on Monday about whether it would shutter Lucky or continue to print the sputtering magazine by instead spinning off Lucky into a separate company called The Lucky Group.The new company is a joint venture between Conde Nast and BeachMint, an e-commerce... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the magazines with the largest number of single-copy sales, only four saw increases at the newsstand through the first half of 2014: Prevention and Women's Health, which are owned by Rodale; HGTV Magazine, a joint venture between Hearst and Scripps; and All You, a Time Inc.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
O’Reilly Media has acquired the remaining 50% stake in Safari Books, a subscription ebook service offering access to business and tech content, originally launched as a joint venture with the Pearson Technology Group in 2001. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
F+W Media Inc. and the Germany-based Hubert Burda Media have entered into a 50-50 joint venture to run the brand Burda Style in the U.S. and Canada, as well as the U.K. digital activities of Burda Style. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ross Levinsohn, CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media, publisher of Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, is on the growing list of industry executives set to speak at the inaugural 2014 Digital Entertainment World conference in Los Angeles. The global marketplace and conference, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing, which launched a general-interest book publishing operation in New York two and a half years ago, is losing its top executive here.Seattle-based Amazon announced Friday that the head of its general-interest publishing division, Larry Kirshbaum, would leave the company Jan. 17... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines plans to publish two test issues of a new lifestyle magazine with celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz in the first quarter of 2014, the company said today.The company plans to distribute about 350,000 copies of the first issue to newsstands and another 450,000 to certain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany's largest book chain Thalia is planning a joint venture in Switzerland with its major... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A British magazine distributed by a joint venture of Conde Nast and Hearst Corporation and aimed at primary school children has been featuring images of adult-rated video games. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers often want to work closely with ebook outlets -- possibly a little too closely -- but it's rare that they involve themselves directly. Pearson is taking that uncommon step by making a 5 percent, $89.5 million investment in Nook Media, the joint venture between Barnes & Noble and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dow Jones is closing the print edition of SmartMoney, the 20-year-old personal finance magazine, and expanding its digital news team, the company said today, confirming news first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The print edition's September issue will be its last, meaning the elimination... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 16/06/2011 - 09:29 Ingram has opened Lightning Source Australia, its fifth international print on demand facility. Lightning Source already operates print on demand facilities at its Tennessee headquarters as well as in Pennsylvania in the United... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]