Yeah, I was in the magazine business before you were. Probably. This was from 1973 to 1977, a gentler time when baseball uniforms were double-knit and Nazis had the decency to cower in South America and Good & Plenty was a household name. It was a time, dear reader, before Photoshop. Before social strategy. Before a single cover Kardashian. Way the f*** back, in other words. In those days, I was an undergraduate at King’s College Oxford…or, wait, I may be mistaken. Perhaps it was Penn State. Yes, come to think of it, it was Penn State. I’m now remembering ag barns and a sainted football coach and a great deal of Little Caesars pizza and rows of state-constructed concrete residential blocks, in one of which I either studiously devoured the canon of Western literature or drank Busch quarts and played street hockey in the study lounge. Ah, academe. Anyhoo, early in my freshman year I learned that the venerable old college humor magazine Froth—a remnant of the '20s, resurrected in the '50s, re-resurrected in the '60s—was being re-re-resurrected. Whoa! This was for me! I harbored tweedy, man-of-letters aspirations (I’d already begun affecting a pipe, which looked super sophisticated on my sturdy 6'1'' 130-pound physique) and a magazine seemed to be just the ticket. I submitted a piece that parodied an Eisenhower-era guide to social hygiene for teens, titled it “Dr. Lance Boyle’s Guide to Life and Love,” and very soon I was a published author. The spoof was actually pretty... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-30 14:46:31 UTC ]
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The chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new micro-loan scheme for small businesses, to alleviate the impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 14:18:05 UTC ]
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Flexibility and follow-through, new business books say, are key to navigating a world in flux. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Unlike most mass-market magazine publishers, whose print books generally depend far more on subscriptions and advertising revenue than single-copy sales, the closures of newsstands, bookstores and other retail outlets stemming from shelter-in-place orders have robbed many independent, niche... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-23 16:55:51 UTC ]
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Contrary to what you might read elsewhere, there are three stages to a pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-17 07:22:01 UTC ]
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Random House Business has acquired Poles Apart, "a major new analysis of political and social tribalism" by the presenters of the podcast "Changed My Mind". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-17 07:14:51 UTC ]
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Taylor & Francis owner Informa has launched an issue of shares worth 19.9% of its existing capital as the coronavirus pandemic hits its events business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 15:21:35 UTC ]
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The novel is sweeter than Jiles’s previous work but no less attentive to the texture of the American Southwest. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-14 15:57:54 UTC ]
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Like every publisher, Hearst Magazines has had to adapt to creating content in an all-remote world, from putting out magazines Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-04-13 16:58:44 UTC ]
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Many libraries publish art and literary magazines featuring authors and artists from their local community and from all over the world. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-04-13 10:31:23 UTC ]
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Like every digital publisher, Hearst Magazines has had to adapt to creating content in an all-remote world. "My motto is 'enter smiling,' and I believe there is opportunity in everything," CCO Kate Lewis said on the inaugural episode of The New Normal, a weekly interactive discussion show where... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2020-04-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In this fifth installment of publishing during a pandemic, I reached out to Troy Young, president of Hearst Magazines, to see how Hearst was managing during this tragic and uncertain time. As we continue to see the gloom and doom in the news media, and very rare mention of anything uplifting or... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2020-04-09 13:46:46 UTC ]
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RELX, whose Reed Exhibitions business organises the London Book Fair and BookExpo, has published a trading statement revealing exhibitions are being "impacted significantly" by the coronavirus outbreak, making the group's outlook for the year as a whole "highly uncertain". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 07:29:50 UTC ]
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For most publishers, the newsstand business has become ancillary. But prior to The Great Recession, America’s top 500 magazines delivered nearly 350 million copies to newsstands across the country. Times have changed, to say the least. That number now is a small fraction of what it once was,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-07 15:37:04 UTC ]
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If there’s karma, publishing ‘The Red Lotus’ now means that my next novel better be about a cure for a horrific disease. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing the impact of the pandemic, O’Reilly Media president Laura Baldwin announced that the publisher and technology education platform is canceling all future in-person symposiums and closing that portion of its business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The maverick, ‘free-range’ kids’ list has been behind a number of breakout authors and series since its inception in 2000—and has no plans to alter its approach any time soon... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 23:01:42 UTC ]
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Greg Orme's The Human Edge (Pearson Business) has been named book of the year the Business Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 15:18:03 UTC ]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic forces marketers to tighten their advertising budgets and organizers to cancel or postpone events, media companies of all sizes are scrambling to account for lost revenue. In cities across the U.S., a virtual suspension of public life is taking a disastrous toll on... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-03-23 14:46:51 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus is to publish the debut novel of Nicole Kennedy, a former city lawyer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 14:35:00 UTC ]
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With governors of both Illinois and New Jersey issuing shelter-in-place orders, IPG, located in Illinois, and Bookazine, based in the Garden State, said they remain open. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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