The Daily Dot goes long and slow with relaunch of The Kernel

Count The Daily Dot as the latest digital publisher getting into the "magazine" business. The post The Daily Dot goes long and slow with relaunch of The Kernel appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily Press Publisher Elected President of Southern Newspaper Publishers Association

The publisher of the Daily Press has been elected as president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Digby A. Solomon - president, publisher and CEO of the Daily Press Media Group since 2007 - was chosen to lead the industry association, ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E.L. James’s Long Shadow May Linger over Frankfurt

It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fortune Relaunches iPad App With Free, Paid Content Mix

In an effort to gain subscribers, Fortune has relaunched its iPad app with a mix of free and paid content. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good Relaunches, Opens Up About Layoffs

Good founder Ben Goldhirsh shocked media types and set in motion a slew of terrible headline puns (“Bad! Major Editorial Layoffs Hit Good”) when the company laid off the majority of its editorial staff with very little explanation last June. Yet after a quiet summer, Goldhirsh and Good are... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback's Dale relaunches Politicos

Biteback publisher Iain Dale, founder of the original Politicos bookshop, has bought back the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Beast’s Digital Challenge

In 2008, The Daily Beast launched as an ambitious online effort by magazine legend Tina Brown. That effort took a detour two years ago, when it merged with old-line print publication Newsweek. The result is a publication that has crafted a model tha ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Happened To the Long Tail?

In explaining the steep drop in Penguin Group USA’s profits for the first six months of 2012, CEO David Shanks said one important factor was the decline in backlist sales. Borders was an important customer for Penguin’s backlist, especially its classics line, so the collapse of the chain hurt... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff

The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people famili ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg Plans Convention Dailies

Bloomberg LP is jumping into an area dominated by established media players again—this time with a daily magazine it will produce for the Republican and Democratic conventions. The daily, called Bloomberg Insider, will run 32 pages per ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily Mail Parent Launches Travel Retail Website

The publishing giant behind the Daily Mail is entering the travel arena with a bookings site. MailTravel.co.uk is described as offering a “robust new sales distribution channel to existing and new suppliers”. A& ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian Daily Herald Sun Launches Hybrid iPad App, Created With WoodWing

The Herald Sun, Australia´s favorite daily newspaper – read by 1.3 million Victorians every weekday – has selected WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise and its Digital Publishing ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Relaunches ‘Elle Accessories’ Title

In another hopeful sign that the magazine industry—or, at least, some segments of it—may be turning an important corner, Hearst’s Elle brand is preparing to relaunch an extension, Elle Accessories, to include a projected 200-page, oversized print edition published twice per year, along with a Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media Decoder Blog: After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books

Thomas Pynchon, author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “The Crying of Lot 49,” characteristically declined to speak about his decision. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Carly Simon sells long-awaited memoir

Carly Simon, the singer and songwriter who has had a rocky life and a storied career, has sold her autobiography to Random House for a sum in the seven figures, according to a person familiar with the deal. Ms. Simon, the author of several children's books, is writing the memoir herself. It's... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book sales growth is slowing

Publishers hoping that digital sales would make up for the decline in physical books are worried. Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Out New York Launches E-Commerce, Daily Deals Platform

Moving forward with an expanded focus on digital media, Time Out New York (TONY) has integrated e-commerce and daily deals into its website and newly-launched apps. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Rabbit 110 marks website relaunch

Frederick Warne has teamed up with digital design agency tictoc to relaunch the Peter Rabbit... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily-deal sites offer magazines circulation growth

Daily-deal sites like Groupon have proved a challenge for restaurants that can't handle the influx of hundreds of customers redeeming deals all at once. Publishing companies, however, are built to scale their audience as needed. For the past two years, there's been a healthy amount of debate—and... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Get 'The Long Tail' E-Book for Free--in Comic-Book Form!

It may sound a little strange, but the SmarterComics version of this business bestseller is quite engaging. Here's your chance to read it online free of charge. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ALM Relaunches Better Buildings Brand with a National Supplement

ALM is resurrecting its Better Buildings brand, a tri-state area building management magazine which debuted in 1981 and shuttered in the mid 1990s, with the launch of a national, quarterly supplement of the same name, to be distributed along with its Real Estate Forum magazine. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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