T Magazine Gets Heat From Readers On Lack of Diversity

After reader pushback, The New York Times’ magazine is looking to include more ethnicities, and the larger media landscape should, too. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Company magazine forsakes print to go digital-only

Company magazine is to cease print publication. Its owner, Hearst Magazines, is to turn it into a digital-only publication from October 2014.The final print issue of the monthly magazine, which was launched in 1978, will go on sale on 5 September. Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child: Amazon's Readers United letter 'disingenuous'

Amazon is using “authors as collateral damage and using customers as pawns”, author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2014 Magazine Manufacturing and Production Technology Survey

  Last year's manufacturing and production survey signaled a major turn-around in new technology investment after a four-year decline from 2008 to 2011. According to FOLIO:'s 2014 manufacturing and production technology survey, investment is still on the rise- spiking another 32 percent from... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conde Nast Spins Off Lucky Magazine but Keeps Majority Stake

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 at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon vs Hachette: readers and authors take sides in publishing dispute

The tussle between Amazon and the publishing conglomerate has been raging since spring. Heres an update on the fightA corporate boxing match broke from the ring and swelled into all-out rumpus last weekend, as readers and authors took sides in Amazon and Hachettes fight over the publishing... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Streaming of books threatens to sell readers down the river

Scholastic is the latest publisher to phase out downloading, meaning ebooks already purchased might become unreadableScholastic, the publisher of such children's book juggernauts as The Hunger Games and the Harry Potter series, announced recently that its Storia ebook shop would shortly be... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iPad Magazine Pioneer Lights A Match And Walks Away

Sensing the changing tides in the industry, iPad magazine designer Joe Zeff is bringing his talents to the enterprise world.You may not have heard of Joe Zeff before, but if you've picked up an iPad edition of PC Magazine, Fast Company (full disclosure!), or Time's 9/11 memorial, you've likely... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Four Magazines Increased Their Newsstand Sales

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 at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble launches its Nook GlowLight e-reader in the UK for £89

Barnes & Noble isn't exactly a household name in the UK, but in the States it's a book-selling behemoth, with hundreds of stores complimenting a vast library of ebooks, as well as a line of readers to consume them on. In autumn 2012, B&N expanded... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After exiting PCs, Sony pulls the plug on e-readers

Sony is stopping e-reader production following the transfer of its ebook business outside Japan to Canada’s Kobo.“Final production of the current Reader model, PRS-T3, was made at the end of May,” a spokeswoman for Sony in Tokyo wrote in an email Wednesday. “The product will continue to be... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WWE Magazine Shuts Down

WWE Magazine is ceasing publication after 30 years in print. The news follows a poor second quarter earnings report for ownership group, WWE, that resulted about 55 job Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sony gives up on selling e-readers

Sony gives up selling its line of Reader devices for ebooks after failing to find a big enough market. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sony to cease production of e-reader devices

Sony will no longer produce e-reader devices because it is not "economically viable".... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fresh Crop of Magazine Launches Points to an Evolving Industry

T he magazine industry has faced its fair share of hardships in recent years. The demise of Source Interlink has left newsstand inventory sparse and publishers reeling. The monetization of digital content remains enduringly elusive. And all... Continue reading at Publishing Executive

[ Publishing Executive | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EC: copyright White Paper delays due to 'great diversity of views'

The European Commission is to take "a few more weeks" to finalise its White Paper on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No Lack of Major Prose Houses at Comic-Con

Major book publishers such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are once again investing heavily in promotional materials for the five days of Comic-Con International: San Diego, held at the San Diego Convention Center. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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GIFT SHOP Magazine Sold

  Pinnacle Publishing Group sold GIFT SHOP Magazine to Great American Media Services. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Polansky Up at Reader's Digest

Debra Polansky has been named publishing director, books, at The Reader’s Digest Association. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conde Nast's Golf World Magazine Goes Digital-Only

The 67-year-old Golf World magazine is closing its print edition and shifting entirely to digital media, where it will be part of the Golf Digest website, the magazine said Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the magazine said nearly 10 employees were laid off as a result of the move, which combines... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business

Yahoo and other online publishers are embracing the term "magazine." Here's why that's not as backwards as its sounds. The post Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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