As print titles continue to close, two startups may offer an answer to the news industry’s woeThe question most asked by journalists just now, aside from the routine one about Brexit, is how their trade will be funded in future. Indeed, at local level, there is increasing concern about whether there will be any trade at all.Look at the state of the big three regional publishers. JPI Media, owner of the i newspaper, the Scotsman, The Yorkshire Post and about 200 more titles, was founded last November from the ashes of Johnston Press after it went into administration. It began this year by announcing a series of cover price rises and followed up with a review aimed at relocating offices and merging newsrooms (a euphemism for reducing journalistic staff). Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online writing community Wattpad has launched a fan funding experiment to allow members to pledge... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The newspaper industry was hit with more bad news mid-week, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer made deep cuts to its newsroom, and several newspaper publishers reported more revenue declines. The Plain Dealer, owned by Advance Publications, delivered ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new bi-annual publication dedicated to the unpaid workforce looks anything but entry-level. Intern magazine marks a new meta-high in the publishing industry: Unpaid interns who work in media are paying plenty of attention to a media launch dedicated to unpaid interns. If you had to think... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers including Maxim, Radar Online, Guitar World and USA Today Sports Media are experimenting with a pay wall that instead of charging readers requires them to watch an advertiser's video. The tactic, which uses a system ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A day after news broke of actor James Gandolfini's death, entertainment magazines are lining up content to commemorate The Sopranos star’s life and work. An Entertainment Weekly spokesperson said that the magazine would include a tribute to Gandolfini in its “All Time Greatest” double issue, on... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A publishing grant from South Korea's Literature Translation Institute will help UK's b small publishing promote the children's book "Creative Hand Art." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hobby titles are proving to be fertile ground for video. Kalmbach Publishing's Model Railroader is the latest to expand its offerings, launching a paid video subscription site to its compliment the 79-year-old brand. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French government and publishers this week pledged an additional €9m in mainly interest-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Books Ireland and Orion Publishing, in collaboration with the Irish Times, have jointly... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Designed by Huge, the revamped, digital-only Newsweek aims to bring print mag qualities like cohesion and curation to the web. When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch print and go all digital, it seemed to many like an ill... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's taken a number of steps to bring different types of content to the Kindle Store, and it's now venturing into an area that has a long history with the internet: fan fiction. The company's today announced Kindle Worlds, a new publishing platform that promises to pay writers royalties for... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Granada Books opens in downtown Santa Barbara, Calif., next month, it will operate on a hybrid model with a for-profit bookstore and a not-for-profit event series, Pomegranate Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster is the latest publisher in the UK to introduce a refined agency model for e-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Staff at independent publishers have seen increases in pay and benefits over the last three years... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book publishing is a business of high stakes gambles—and trade book publishers continue to make the right bets.Helped by blockbuster titles Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games, the industry posted net revenue of $7.1 billion in 2012, up 6.2% from the prior year, according to the... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller reported last week that HarperCollins and Hatchette UK have become the first British publishers to refine the agency model agreement with Amazon co.uk. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Between 2003 and 2012, media giant Gannett Co. shed more than 20,000 employees, some of them journalists at its television stations, local newspapers and flagship daily USA Today. Nonetheless, on a recent Saturday, the publisher sent recruiters to the Columbia University Graduate School of... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By the end of last summer, I was worn out. It seemed like every week brought a new, awful incident of plagiarism or fabrication at news organizations large and small. My job was to write about all of them, to try and get more information about wh ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins and Hachette UK are the first UK publishers to introduce a refined agency model... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publishers: Look outside your industry and toward models like HBO Go for the digital path forward, says the publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mike Klingensmith, who took the reins as publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune Media Co ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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