Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 17, 2011 5:26 PM
As of September 1, BookTour.com, a website cofounded by Wired‘s Chris Anderson that helped authors arrange promotional events and publicize their books, is closing. “Fewer author tours and changes in book marketing budgets have made our company financially unviable,” CEO Kevin Smokler wrote today on the company’s blog.
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Robert Andrews
May 6, 2011 6:18 AM
After launching UK and Italian editions of Wired magazine in 2009, Conde Nast is now considering a German edition.
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David Kaplan
Feb 14, 2011 12:33 PM
Condé Nast is prepping digital editions of The New Yorker and Wired magazines for Google’s Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) system this spring. While both titles have been available on Apple’s iPad for several months, publishers such as Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) are hopeful that Google’s greater flexibility on managing digital…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 26, 2010 5:00 AM
Bob Sauerberg’s field promotion to president of Condé Nast was a surprise— and yet, after watching him in action with CEO Chuck Townsend a few weeks ago, it isn’t much of a shock. True, Townsend didn’t give any hint that his own job was about to be split as he…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 1, 2010 3:48 PM
Wired Creative Director Scott Dadich’s role is expanding to corporate Conde Nast following the initial success of the magazine’s iPad app. As Executive Director, Digital Magazine Development, he’ll work at the corporate level to develop simultaneous print/digital publishing systems for the various magazine brands based on the Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 30, 2010 1:35 PM
Last week, Conde Nast’s Bob Sauerberg explained a slightly complicated plan that had the company lowering the cost of Wired on the iPad to $3.99 for second-time buyers and keeping it at $4.99 for the first download. The idea was to offer a reward that might keep potential repeat users…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 24, 2010 6:00 AM
Wired sold more than 90,000 downloads of its first stand-alone app at $4.99 but what about the second issue or the third? Did Conde Nast squander an opportunity to do more with that first wave of interest? Not if you listen to Bob Sauerberg, the publisher’s group president of consumer…
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David Kaplan
May 27, 2010 10:58 AM
Wired magazine sold 24,000 copies of its $4.99 app in the first 24 hours of its release, according to a tweet by John Abel, the mag’s NY bureau chief. With the 70 percent revenue split, that means that Conde Nast took away $83,832. It helps that Wired’s tech audience tends…
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David Kaplan
May 26, 2010 3:00 AM
The tablet version of Wired magazine was in the final steps of preparation last month when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched released its iPad last month, but the use of non-compatible Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash as a key feature in the mag’s app caused the publisher’s and the tech company’s developers…
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David Kaplan
Feb 19, 2009 1:38 PM
Get out your scorecard, there’s been a lot of personnel shifts going on these days at Condé Nast…. In the latest reshuffling of execs within the past month, Chris Mitchell will move from his perch at the publisher’s Wired Media unit to become VP/Publisher of Condé Nast Traveler, effective today.…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 28, 2008 10:58 AM
Wired Media has filled the post left vacant by Jay Lauf leaving to become The Atlantic’s publisher: the CondeNast magazine and website has brought on Details VP and publisher Chris Mitchell as VP and publisher, overseeing sales and marketing for both print and digital platforms. Mitchell returns to Wired after…
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