Tag Archives: Magazines

NYTimes.com: Publishers to launch online magazine newsstand

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From 24 November, but worth flagging up this project in the US: a consortium of magazine publishers which includes Time Inc. and Condé Nast are to build an online magazine newsstand in ‘multiple digital formats’, reports the New York Times.

“The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand – sometimes characterized as an ‘iTunes for magazines’ – may be announced in early December. Time, Condé Nast, Hearst, and Meredith all intend to be equity partners in the new company, although the deals have not yet been signed.”

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The Wrap: ‘Is ESPN The Mag committing ‘publishing suicide’?’

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Dylan Stableford looks at the US magazine industry’s plight: rapidly declining single-copy sales and advertising pages plummeting in number last year. Yet magazines are offering big discounts. For example, ESPN The Magazine’s 2 million subscribers can extend their subscriptions for a year – for $1. Is this approach ‘publishing suicide’?

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FolioMediaPro: ‘Are magazines prepared for the digital era?’

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A discussion started on May 18 is yielding some interesting responses. Bart Mariner kickstarted it with this:

“In the last months I’ve been attending several conventions. I don’t share some pessimistic views from tired publishers. My recent job experience has been with newspapers and many of them have reasons to be scared of since they provide information and it is seen nowadays as a commodity. But magazines are more than information. They are about experiences and they have been able to built communities around them that are the basis to built digital places. Do you agree?”

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Instyle.co.uk gets a makeover with new ad formats

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IPC Media’s InStyle has revamped its website with a new black background, bigger images and new advertising formats, including a larger size MPUs – an Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) first, according to a press release.

Instyle.co.uk

The main features of the new design are:

  • Easier navigation
  • Enlarged fashion section
  • A list containing all featured celebrities and designers with access to photo galleries
  • New hair and news channel
  • Video beauty guidance
  • Microsites linking to a fashion events calendar
  • Online shop

MediaUK: Magazine titles on Twitter

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Some titles missing on this UK-based ‘Magazine titles on Twitter’ list but they can be added by editing the directory.

This is a list that uses the Twitter API to track the popularity of UK magazine titles on Twitter.

There’s also a list of magazine people on Twitter, but at the time of writing it had only two names…

Also newspapers and radio stations here, with separate lists for newspaper journalists and radio people.

(Thanks @martinstabe)

The Associated Press: Google updates search index with old magazines

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Google has added magazines to its internet search engine, AP reports.

“As part of its quest to corral more content published on paper, Google Inc. has made digital copies of more than 1 million articles from magazines that hit the news-stands decades ago.”

Paul Conley: B2B industry ‘as we know it’ about to collapse

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Following a research report, Paul Conley feels its time for him to say something he has ‘hesitated to say’. “The B2B industry, as we know it, is about to collapse,” he writes.

The B2B publishing industry currently now dominated by giant print companies and smaller web-only companies is about to collapse, he continues.

When the dust settles, B2B journalism will still be here – but many of the companies that make up the industry will be gone, he predicts.