Condé Nast ‘Social Sidekick’ Aims To Cross-Pollinate Mag Brands
As publishers have made use of Twitter and Facebook to drive traffic back to their branded, Condé Nast’s Social Sidekick tool is meant to g… Read more »
Pulse Aims For ‘Mainstream’ With USA Today, Women’s Health, New Yorker
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Mobile news reading app Pulse is reaching out to a more mainstream audience with its announcement of three new publishing partners: USA Toda… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-30-11
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» Sale Ending Soon? Yelp Rethinks Its Daily Deals Service (paidContent)
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Time Inc. Launches Its First Four Magazines On Nook Color
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Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines’ presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Spor… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Subscriptions Come To The iPad
As part of its ongoing efforts to adapt its 89-year-old flagship to the digital age, Reader’s Digest subscriptions are now available through… Read more »
Bernstein: Pearson Should Sell Off FT Group And Penguin, Focus On Education
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
Time Out Buys LikeCube To Sharpen Its Targeting/Recommendation Plays
Time Out, the listings and guidebook publisher, is upping its digital and social game: it has bought the UK-based semantic analysis company… Read more »
Magazine Newsstand Sales Fall, But Digital May Be Lifting Overall Circ
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While the publishing world is falling all over itself to make its newspapers and magazines print pubs as accessible on the major mobile and… Read more »
Guardian Enters E-Singles Space With Phone-Hacking Scandal E-Book
The Guardian is the latest news outlet to get into e-singles publishing with “Guardian Shorts,” a series of “detailed guides to topical news… Read more »
Updated: Kindle’s Free Sci-Fi Mag Hits #1, But Policy Confuses Shoppers
Amazon’s attempt to reach out to science fiction fans is working: Less than 24 hours after it was released, the free digest edition of Fanta… Read more »
Time Inc. To Add Tablet Editions For All Mags; Strikes B&N Deal
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio… Read more »
Time Warner Film Dollars Rise On Video Game Hits; Mags Gain A Bit
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw profits and revenues boosted by movie sequels, but did even better thanks to video games tied to film franchises… Read more »
Kindle Tests New Subscription Model On Science Fiction Fans
Science fiction/fantasy is one of the fastest-growing e-book genres, and Amazon’s Kindle Store is wooing fans with a new offer: A free subsc… Read more »
Glamour Looks To Mobile And Social For September Print Promotion
The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour’s l… Read more »
Condé Nast Digital Mags Drew Nearly 250K Downloads Since May
Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-01-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD)
» The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPa… Read more »
Updated: Prometheus CEO Beckman’s Role Diminished? Not So, He Says
Richard Beckman, the publishing vet who was tapped early on by the group of investors that paid an estimated $80 million to buy Nielsen’s b2… Read more »
Our Guide To E-Singles
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E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-29-11
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IAC’s Diller: Daily Beast/Newsweek Losses Are More Than Tolerable
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IAC’s media businesses — The Daily Beast/Newsweek, digital entertainment studio Electus and video site College Humor — don’t often get a l… Read more »
Allure.com Relaunches With Heavy E-Commerce Component
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Women’s magazines have long recommended specific beauty products, and online-only publications like Lonny include buy links for featured pro… Read more »
MSLO Digital Growth Slows
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After watching digital revenues surge regularly by double digits over the past year, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) saw interne… Read more »
Flipboard Kicks Off Its First Advertising Program With Condé Nast
Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, b… Read more »
Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On Digital Mag Metrics
While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about… Read more »
Future Looks To Sell Eight Magazines, Lay Off 100 Staff In Digital Push
Another day, another publisher looking to take a step away from print. Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR), the UK-based special-interest magazine… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-20-11
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» James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie (paidContent)
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Time Magazine Adopts ‘All Access’ Subscriptions Across Print And Digital
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Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content acro… Read more »
Scribd Aims For Niche Between Instapaper And Pulse With Reader App Float
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-19-11
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» Murdochs Have A Lot Riding On Tuesday’s Command Performance (paidContent)
» Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-18-11
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» Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment (paidContent)
» WSJ To News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). Critics: STF… Read more »
The Latest iPad-Only Magazine
Here’s a good example of putting your money where your mouth is: TabTimes, a new magazine about tablet news and put out by tech vets that ca… Read more »
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Rise A Bit, As Food Category Starts To Stumble
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By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers’ continued mig… Read more »
The ePresse Digital Kiosk: First Lessons
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On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-30-11
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» Specific Media Buys MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) for $35 Million; Justin Timberlake Gets A Stake (paidContent)
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Next Issue Media Works To Build The Storefront Before The Audience Arrives
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Ga… Read more »
Oprah’s Book Recommendations Move Onto The iPad
Oprah sold millions of books through her Book Club. Now she has the chance to do the same through O, The Oprah Magazine’s iPad app: The July… Read more »
Meredith Broadens Focus On Food Content With EatingWell Acquisition
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.’s acquisition of EatingWell Media Group and its launch of tips and coupons food site Recipe.com this morning is… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-24-11
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» For Student Journalists, No Burden Guarding Vargas’ Secret (Mountain View Patch)
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TouchPad-Only Magazine ‘Pivot’ To Debut With Tablet, Produced By HP Itself
HP (NYSE: HPQ) must be tiring of all the news about Apple’s strength in the tablet market, and trying to get its own name out in front: to c… Read more »
