What Publishers Can Learn From the Vinyl Comeback
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[responsive][/responsive]It’s been almost two decades since music publishers have seen the kind of vinyl sales that happened last year, up by 52% over the year before. To be sure, notes Chris Sutcliffe in The Media Briefing, a 52% increase in...
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Conde Nast Allows Editors to Work with Advertisers
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[responsive][/responsive]It’s a sentence we couldn't have imagined ten years ago: “Glossy magazine publisher Conde Nast, which owns Vogue and Vanity Fair, is enlisting its editors to consult with advertisers and help them create articles and images,” writes Michael Sebastian in...
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More on Magzter: Why This Won’t Fly
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[responsive][/responsive]Last week we reported that Magzter would begin offering a Netflix-esque model for magazine titles. Our take was that nobody is going to be the Netflix of the magazine industry, based on tepid consumer demand for digital magazines. D.B. Hebbard...
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On Point Rant for the Day: Print Ain’t Dead!
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As one of the largest industries in the world (bigger than the auto industry in sheer number of employees), print is far from dead says Bob Sacks in Media Vent. “Did you know that print is a $640 billion dollar...
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Why Nobody’s Going to Be the Netflix of Magazines
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Massive and unfettered consumption of digital media is so prevalent it’s spawned its own memes. Binge watching is a thing; it has its own Twitter hashtag. And music fans have become their own station producers with unlimited access to just...
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10 Must-Dos to Get Your Magazine App Discovered 
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“Everyone who creates a website or launches an app secretly believes the old Field of Dreams quote: ‘If you build it they will come.’ As the digital magazine industry has learned over the past four years, this is not the...
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Advertisers Ask “Where’s the Print?”
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[responsive][/responsive]Well, that didn't take long. After announcing in 2012 that it was scrapping its print edition, T.H.E. Journal has announced it will begin publishing again in print this month, writes Michael Rondon in Folio:. “When the decision was made to...
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If Only…Dead Tree Edition Gives Predictions for 2015
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[responsive][/responsive]A slightly giddy D. Eadward Tree has finally joined the ranks of prognosticators with his predictions for publishing in 2015. And boy, are they doozies. “When glancing at my article in the current issue of Publishing Executive, I had a...
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Revisiting the Pitchfork Review One Year Later
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It’s been just over a year since Pitchfork – a web-based music news and review site – launched its quarterly print publication The Pitchfork Review, stating “We've always been huge fans of the print medium. The Pitchfork Review will allow...
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Once Upon a Time at Airbnb
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When Airbnb launched its print magazine last fall, we applauded. To us, the reasons for branding out with this kind of content were self-evident and confirmed what we were seeing among other digital-first companies launching print titles. While it’s evident...
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