The 2014 Audience Development Salary Survey

Ad page declines. Newsstand woes. Distribution messes. Postage increases. Digital growth.  It's no secret that audience development and circulation practices have been faced with a monumental set of challenges recently. As print becomes a smaller part of publishers' bottom lines, the role of those departments—and the employees in them—has shifted. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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BEA 2014: Why Tor Dumped DRM

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BEA 2014: What’s Happening on the High Line

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BEA 2014: A Civil War Female Voice: Laird Hunt

An obscure but fascinating aspect of the Civil War, when hundreds of women disguised as men enlisted in the army as Union soldiers to fight, is at the heart of Neverhome (Little, Brown; Sept.) by Laird Hunt, the author of five novels and a collection of short stories and a two-time finalist for... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: DK’s Worldwide Celebration

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BEA 2014: Alan Cumming: A Life Revealed

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BEA 2014: Sex Academic Style: Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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BEA 2014: Can Anyone Compete with Amazon?

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