Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher's Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here's the previous edition. On April 22, publishing conglomerate Condé Nast—home of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and other glossy titles—will get a new boss: Roger Lynch, the former CEO of Pandora. He'll move from San Francisco to take the top job at Condé's One World Trade Center headquarters in Manhattan, but he'll have more power than the previous New York-based chief, Bob Sauerberg, whose departure was announced last November. That's because the company is combining its international and U.S. divisions; Sauerberg ran the latter, but Lynch will lord over the whole shebang as global CEO. The outgoing head of Condé Nast International, Jonathan Newhouse—a member of the Newhouse family that owns the company—will become chairman of the board of directors. This is, of course, a brutally challenging time for legacy publishers, many of which have seen their largely advertising-supported business models nosedive as the Google-Facebook duopoly has risen. As I noted in this space when Bob Sauerberg's exit was announced, "the next leader of Condé Nast arguably has an even more torturous task than that faced by Sauerberg, as the company's big flagship titles—which once helped keep more marginal titles afloat—have lately seen continued dramatic revenue declines." Condé Nast has had some... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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The Authors Guild is seeking more than $2 billion in damages from Google Books – which may make this one of the most expensive copyright damages cases in litigation history. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Imagine a newspaper that is printed on broadsheet from Tuesday through Sunday but switched to tabloid for the Monday edition. Then imagine a paper that was published seven days a week for 126 years but then had to scrap Mondays due to hard times & ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 'The Escape Artists' by Noam Scheiber and 'Confidence Men' by Ron Suskind, President Obama's economic recovery plan and his advisors are in the spotlight, but the books' analyses are off the mark in places.On Oct. 28 and 29, 1929, when the great crash devastated the stock market, Herbert... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claymation, Chimpanzee, Coriolanus, Close (Glenn), comedy (lots), and classics (happy 200th birthday, Mr. Dickens)looks like a cool collection. Several of the seasons movies are based on nonfiction works: Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin (Tina Fey was busy?), Meryl (Streep) as Margaret... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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