Are Your Reading Habits Ruining Your Health?
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[responsive][/responsive]We’ve known for a while now that print readers retain more and comprehend what they read better than digital book readers. (This may be one reason why college students prefer print textbooks to digital texts.) Now, new research is showing...
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Happy Birthday to Porter Magazine
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[responsive][/responsive]More evidence that quality print titles can thrive in a multi-channel world: Net-a-Porter’s early success with their Porter fashion title, launched one year ago. “The luxury online retailer NET-A-PORTER launched a magazine one year ago, PORTER, and today was able...
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Twitter Stream About to Get Some Serious Google Love
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[responsive][/responsive]Twitter tweets are about to get more exposure through Google’s search engine, according to Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier, and the results could mean money in the bank for the struggling social channel.“In the first half of this year, tweets will start...
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Waiting to See on Digital Circulation Rates
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[responsive][/responsive]Is the growth of digital magazines really slowing down across the board, or are there other factors in play here? That’s the question posted by D. B. Hebbard in Talking New Media, who notes that the data from AAM is...
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Why Skymall Failed (Hint: It Wasn’t the Yeti Garden Statue)
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[responsive][/responsive]Frequent flyers have their products memorized – my favorite is the spider vacuum – but the iconic Skymall catalog has gone the way of hot meals in coach. The parent company filed for Chapter 11 last month, and the Internet...
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What’s Different About Catalogs Today
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[responsive][/responsive]Most of us remember the J.C. Penney “Big Book” or the Sears catalog. Those behemoths sat, dog-eared and marked-up, for months on side tables. As kids, we cut out pictures for our letters to Santa Claus, in much the same...
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Up In the Air with the New Postal Rates
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Nearly three weeks after the U.S. Postal Service proposed hiking most postal rates, mailing experts and regulators can’t figure out what the proposal means, notes D. Eadward Tree, who illuminates seven mysteries of the new postal rates. Largely incomplete, the...
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A Magazine By Any Other Name…
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[responsive][/responsive] If the “view from the top” is to be believed, the magazine industry has successfully retooled itself to reflect the realities of digital content and ad revenue quite nicely. According to Caysey Welton in Folio: an impressive panel of...
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What Works in Digital Cover Design?
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[responsive][/responsive]One of the criticisms we hear of replica digital magazines is that they don’t leverage any of the interactive benefits of digital but simply recreate the print magazine. Readers aren’t loving this solution, and simply reproducing the print magazine cover...
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Tech-Savvy Teens Still Prefer Print
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[responsive][/responsive]Born with technology at their fingertips, today’s teens are truly digital natives, learning to speak the language of social media and digital discovery as easily as learning to talk. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, they prefer to read books in print according...
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