The Relaunched Red Herring’s Bleeding; Jim Daly Leaves To Start New Mag

By Rafat Ali

Apr. 14, 2004 - 2:04 AM EDT Apr. 14, 2004 - 2:04 AM EDT

This is official: the relaunched Red Herring has been undergoing a big brain drain, shortly after it was relaunched late last year. Jim Daly… Read more »

Rolling Stone To Launch Ringtones Brand

By Rafat Ali

Apr. 6, 2004 - 1:05 AM EDT Apr. 6, 2004 - 1:05 AM EDT

Rolling Stone is getting into the ringtones game. Rather late, I have to say. It has tied up with mobile content developer Dwango North Amer… Read more »

Adobe Predicts Continued Increase in Digital Editions

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 25, 2004 - 10:03 PM EDT Mar. 25, 2004 - 10:03 PM EDT

In UK, that is…Adobe says 55% of the UK’s top selling women’s titles, including Condé Nast’s Glamour, the National Magazine Company’s Cos… Read more »

MAXIM-Branded Wireless Phones To Be Launched in Latin America

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 24, 2004 - 6:03 AM EDT Mar. 24, 2004 - 6:03 AM EDT

This expands on an earlier deal in which Maxim content was to be distributed to LatAm mobile subscribers…now it will be a Maxim-branded ha… Read more »

National Magazine Awards 2004 Online Finalists

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 18, 2004 - 9:04 AM EDT Mar. 18, 2004 - 9:04 AM EDT

At the end of the page:
– Beliefnet (http://www.beliefnet.com): Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief
– The Chronicle of Higher Education (http… Read more »

Forbes.com Taunts WSJ

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 17, 2004 - 2:03 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2004 - 2:03 AM EDT

Forbes.com is hitting the big gun, Wall Street Journal (the print version), in touting its bigger reach…In one online campaign, Forbes.com… Read more »

BusinessWeek Online Is Out For Audience

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 15, 2004 - 8:04 PM EDT Mar. 15, 2004 - 8:04 PM EDT

BusinessWeek Online wants to give Forbes.com and the WSJ.com a run for their money with more original content, regular special reports, and… Read more »

Plug Pulled On a Promising Science Journal

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 15, 2004 - 10:04 AM EDT Mar. 15, 2004 - 10:04 AM EDT

More details on the closure of the nine-month-old Acumen Journal of Sciences…first reported here… Read more »

Acumen Journal of Life Sciences Has Closed

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 2, 2004 - 3:03 AM EDT Mar. 2, 2004 - 3:03 AM EDT

It’s not easy, is it? The geeky science journal starrup run by ex-Red Herring Jason Pontin has closed down…
Sad…”It was funded by Eric… Read more »

Far Eastern Economic Review To Sell Its Reports Online

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 1, 2004 - 11:03 PM EDT Mar. 1, 2004 - 11:03 PM EDT

What took it so long? The Far Eastern Economic Review survey reports will be sold using ECNext e-commerce platform Read more »

Hachette Starts Wireless Content Venture for U.S. Titles

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 18, 2004 - 5:02 PM EDT Feb. 18, 2004 - 5:02 PM EDT

Well, finally Hachette is moving beyond AvantGo…back in April of 2002, I wrote about (reg. req.) Lagardere Active, the digital subsidiary… Read more »

HP to Create Digital Archive of All Time Magazines

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 17, 2004 - 4:03 PM EDT Feb. 17, 2004 - 4:03 PM EDT

In a coup for Hewlett-Packard’s digital archiving technology, it has tied up with Tme Inc to create a digital archive containing every issue… Read more »

UK Laddie Mags All Plan a Relaunch

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 9, 2004 - 3:03 AM EDT Feb. 9, 2004 - 3:03 AM EDT

All the laddie magazines are having a party together, it seems: The recent flurry of activity in the men’s magazine market is being matched… Read more »

Hachette, Alloy Forge Cross-Media Partnership

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 3, 2004 - 7:03 PM EDT Feb. 3, 2004 - 7:03 PM EDT

Alloy and Hachette Filipacchi’s new cross-media sales and promotional partnership could be a model for future alliances between online and o… Read more »

Billboard Launches New Subscription Site; Folds Billboard Bulletin

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 28, 2004 - 6:02 AM EDT Jan. 28, 2004 - 6:02 AM EDT

: Billboard has launched a new subscription site called Billboard.biz (which, by the way, is perhaps the fist real good use of the .biz name… Read more »

Industry Standard Is Latest Dot.Com-Era Publication to Try a Comeback

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 23, 2004 - 1:02 PM EDT Jan. 23, 2004 - 1:02 PM EDT

Well, if you’ve been wondering what those ads for Industry Standard are doing on my site and newsletter, your guess is right..the publicatio… Read more »

Harper’s Site Revamp Boosts Subs, Content

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 20, 2004 - 6:01 PM EDT Jan. 20, 2004 - 6:01 PM EDT

Harper’s Magazine, in a new light, online… Read more »

KeepMedia’s Subtle Turn

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 19, 2004 - 4:01 PM EDT Jan. 19, 2004 - 4:01 PM EDT

From the ever-informative Outsell Inc’s weekly e-mail newsletter, comes the news that KeepMedia is now positioning itself as the “online med… Read more »

B2.0 Launches Blog

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 14, 2004 - 4:01 PM EDT Jan. 14, 2004 - 4:01 PM EDT

Business 2.0 is the latest magazine to laynch a blog…seems like a decent effort…I think this is the first magazine with the Time Inc sta… Read more »

Weekly For Over A Century, Hourly For The New Century

By Staci D. Kramer

Jan. 12, 2004 - 11:02 PM EDT Jan. 12, 2004 - 11:02 PM EDT

[from guest blogger Staci D. Kramer, once a frequent contributor to the weekly E&P and to mediainfo.com, predecessor of editorandpublisher.… Read more »

RealNetworks Launches New Player; New Store; Takes Over RollingStone.com

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 7, 2004 - 4:02 PM EDT Jan. 7, 2004 - 4:02 PM EDT

In a frenzy of CES related announcements, RealNetworks has made one thing clear: its either music, or the writing is on the wall…
Well, he… Read more »

Yesterday’s Model: How Zinio Takes Content Forward into the Past

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 6, 2004 - 3:01 AM EDT Jan. 6, 2004 - 3:01 AM EDT

“Magazine publishers are taking a timid approach to online content monetization that’s likely to have similar repercussions to those being s… Read more »

E&P Online to Go Subscription-Only On Its Relaunch

By Rafat Ali

Dec. 16, 2003 - 9:13 PM EDT Dec. 16, 2003 - 9:13 PM EDT

Editor & Publisher, which is turning into a monthly magazine from 2004, will also be restricting its site to paid subscribers only…”Unlike… Read more »

Dis*Content: Google May Starting Indexing Offline Publications

By Rafat Ali

Dec. 13, 2003 - 12:13 AM EDT Dec. 13, 2003 - 12:13 AM EDT

This may not necessarily be news, since it is already public that Google has been talking to book publishers on developing a search database… Read more »

Publishers Weekly Turning Premium

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 12, 2003 - 3:12 AM EDT Nov. 12, 2003 - 3:12 AM EDT

Looks like this is new..Reed Business Information is combining its publisher/academic focused sites (Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal and… Read more »

Wired Blog Launches

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 6, 2003 - 1:12 AM EDT Nov. 6, 2003 - 1:12 AM EDT

Wired magazine has launched its first blog…it is using Tripod’s blog tool, which is slightly “live-journalish”…
Related: Time Starts Web… Read more »

The Dejazines

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 6, 2003 - 1:11 AM EDT Nov. 6, 2003 - 1:11 AM EDT

Rex Hammock has to be the most bitingly funny guy in the magazine biz…his blog is a great read.
He’s coined a new term: Dejazine: it is a… Read more »

Rock Magazine Creem To Publish Again, Online

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 4, 2003 - 8:11 PM EDT Nov. 4, 2003 - 8:11 PM EDT

The legendary Creem magazine is making a comback…it has alsreday launched an online version and is slated to launch a print magazine next… Read more »

Time Starts Weblog

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 3, 2003 - 12:11 AM EDT Nov. 3, 2003 - 12:11 AM EDT

This seems to be new: Time magazine has started a weblog by its political/war columnist Tony Karon…
Other major magazines which have alrea… Read more »

ConsumerReports Adds ‘Buy’ Button

By Rafat Ali

Oct. 16, 2003 - 2:10 AM EDT Oct. 16, 2003 - 2:10 AM EDT

ConsumerReports.org, the site of the famously anti-commercial Consumer Reports magazine, is getting a “buy” button…it has introduced a pil… Read more »

Technology Review Launches Blogs

By Rafat Ali

Oct. 7, 2003 - 12:11 AM EDT Oct. 7, 2003 - 12:11 AM EDT

Technology Review has launched a blog…the blog functionality is still pretty basic: it needs permalinks and an RSS feed. But it has great… Read more »

At E&P: Less Print, More Online

By Rafat Ali

Sep. 15, 2003 - 11:10 PM EDT Sep. 15, 2003 - 11:10 PM EDT

Makes perfect sense…(minus the spin)
Related: Will Trade Weblogs Replace Trade Magazines and Websites? Read more »

The Binary Curtain

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 24, 2003 - 7:07 PM EDT Jul. 24, 2003 - 7:07 PM EDT

Business 2.0 website recently went behind a subscription wall recently (first reported here): editor Josh Quittner explains in the August is… Read more »

Time Out London Introduces Subscription Restaurant/Bar Review Section

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 10, 2003 - 5:07 PM EDT Jul. 10, 2003 - 5:07 PM EDT

Time Out magazine has introduced a subscription service, providing reviews and information on London bars and restaurants for a 9.99 pounds… Read more »

Not Just About.com, Primedia Magazines As Well

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 3, 2003 - 10:07 PM EDT Jul. 3, 2003 - 10:07 PM EDT

Primedia has made the first smart move since, well, eternity. It is not just About.com, which has moved to a blogging format (well, sort of)… Read more »

Spin And Vibe Return Online, With Open Source CMS

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 2, 2003 - 3:07 AM EDT Jul. 2, 2003 - 3:07 AM EDT

(via DoneWaiting): Spin.com and Vibe.com, both part of Miller Publishing Group, are back. The group sites–two of the earliest websites conn… Read more »

Magazines’ 2.0

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 1, 2003 - 10:07 PM EDT Jul. 1, 2003 - 10:07 PM EDT

A story on how magazine are slowly but surely getting it right online..or so this story says. Personalization, audience measurement systems,… Read more »

Dr. Dobb’s Wrong Prescription

By Rafat Ali

Jun. 17, 2003 - 1:06 AM EDT Jun. 17, 2003 - 1:06 AM EDT

(via TheEndofFree): A stunted strategy at best: Dr. Dobb Read more »

Internet World’s Swan Song

By Rafat Ali

Jun. 3, 2003 - 4:06 AM EDT Jun. 3, 2003 - 4:06 AM EDT

An article by Alan Meckler, the original founder of IW magazine, which closed down last week. Read more »

Hellomagazine.com Relaunches Subscription Service

By Rafat Ali

May. 13, 2003 - 6:05 PM EDT May. 13, 2003 - 6:05 PM EDT

Hello! Magazine, the celebrity gossip magazine in UK, has relaunched its online subscription service, powered by BTClick&Buy. Users can pay… Read more »

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