The magazine was once the most hotly anticipated Sunday read. Now it's been eclipsed by the showy T style publicationTwo magazines, both published by the New York Times, arrived in my house over the weekend, one thin, the other thick.The thin one, The New York Times Magazine, is largely about public issues, or reflections about the culture, or science, or literature. The thick one, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, is about fashion, design, taste, and luxury.This column is not, let me hasten to say, about the death of news values and civic interest, that the two magazines, side by side, might seem to reflect. Rather, it is about the nature of magazine publishing, and about publishers and the choices they make.It is also about nostalgia, as so much about publishing is these days. And about advertising, which, confoundingly, most writing about publishing is not about.The nostalgia: the New York Times Magazine was once, arguably, the most influential magazine in America (the runner ups would be the New Yorker and Time), as well as one of the most profitable. This had less to do with its famous long-winded prose, then with the fact that it was a supplement delivered with the Sunday Times, and therefore read at nearly the same moment on Sunday morning by the Times readership – some of the most influential people in America, in attentive repose. The magazine was a testament to the power of audience – or the power of its attention. For a writer, appearing in the Magazine... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the print ad market tightened up during the recession, publishers switched their customer-driven revenue strategies into overdrive. If the brand side couldn’t be counted on as a secure revenue bet, then there was only one other place to turn, basically—the readers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp began putting his stamp on the publishing company Wednesday, when employees were told that editors will begin reporting to the organization's business side, a reversal that sent a ripple of anxiety through its editorial offices. Editors of the company's magazines, which... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph has signed a five book fantasy series from crime author James Oswald. Writing as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp began putting his stamp on the publishing company Wednesday, when employees were told that editors will begin reporting to the organization's business side, a reversal that sent a ripple of anxiety through its editorial offices. Editors of the company's magazines, which... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Lynn Rosen It was a powerhouse session at our magazine keynote presentation this year at the Publishing Business Conference. We asked four top execs to speak to the topic of Facing the Future, and to share some... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Lynn Rosen We spend a lot of time finding the most appealing image and compelling copy lines for our covers, and I'm sure you do the same at your publication. I learned from my years in the book business that... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newly installed Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp announced some major management changes at the company, especially on the content side. Norm Pearlstine, who's been chief content officer at Bloomberg LP for the last five years, will be returning to Time Inc. in a newly created role of executive vice... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Politico, the high-metabolism news site covering Beltway politics, will introduce a glossy, six-times-a-year magazine and companion section of its website next month, the company said Wednesday.Unlike traditional publishers that rely on susbcriptions to build the large circulations that... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.com has launched two new initiatives for its US customers – a digital literary... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World Book Night project is to be run by The Reading Agency (TRA), with WBN chief executive... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After serving half of his four-year sentence, Conrad Murray was released from Los Angeles County Jail on Monday, and is reportedly shopping a memoir.After serving half of his four-year sentence, Conrad Murray was released from Los Angeles County Jail on Monday, and is reportedly shopping a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joe Ripp, the newly installed CEO at Time Inc., has spent the first eight weeks on the job firing up his troops for the company's spinoff from Time Warner next year. On Wednesday, he seemed intent on rallying the magazine industry as a whole."We're not really competing with each other," Mr. Ripp... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HGTV Magazine is jumping on the e-commerce and social sharing trend. Its November issue, which hits newsstands Oct. 22, will let readers shop and share from the pages using technology from digital watermarking provider Digimarc. Digimarc did a similar deal with Hearst Magazines sibling pub... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Vice first appeared on Ad Age's Magazine A-List in 2010, it raised more than few eyebrows among industry stalwarts. For one thing, it was the first free-distribution magazine Ad Age had ever honored. And another thing -- OK, the main thing -- Vice is a cheerfully irreverent, quasi-rude... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Belfer Audio Archive at New York’s Syracuse University houses one of the preeminent collections of historical sound recordings in the U.S. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee alleges that her hometown is exploiting her trademark and personality rights. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is to mark Michael Morpurgo's 70th birthday with a month-long celebration in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forty-five US states have adopted the Common Core, a set of standards that spell out what US public school students learn in each grade, from kindergarten to graduation. How would you match up? Test yourself on everything from Dickens to Dirda to see how familiar you are with the novels, poems,... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In case you slept through this weekend and missed it, here are the 10 biggest comic book stories from 2013's New York Comic Con. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was just more than a year ago that Ev Williams and Biz Stone created the publishing platform Medium. The Internet officially met the site in August 2012, and since then, Medium’s popularity has grown enough for even the most ske ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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