Iconic Cincinnati Bookstore Marks 80 Years on Main Street
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Remember the days of the massive multi-story bookstore? You could get lost for hours in there, finding any number of nooks or crannies to read, daydream, plan your next novel. Too bad those days are gone forever…. Oh, wait. Hey...
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Easyriders Magazine Gets a New Owner… and a Whole New Outlook
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Denim entrepreneur Pepper Foster is now in the magazine business after acquiring the iconic Easyriders title. “The co-founder with his brother of denim line Chip & Pepper, Foster last year quietly bought the monthly, founded in 1970 and aimed strictly...
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Bauer and Bines Join Forces for Celebrity Fitness Magazine
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Bauer Media is doing it again. The magazine media brand has built a reputation as a scrapper in the print magazine industry, relentlessly releasing lifestyle and celebrity-based titles that have large online audiences, and translating it beautifully to the print...
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There’s Strength in Diversity in Indie Publishing
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For publishers who want to learn the latest best practices and new opportunities, you can’t go wrong attending Making Publishing Pay in London this February. This year’s event includes four indie publishers that have successfully revamped their business models. As...
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A Tree Falls in Brooklyn… and Two Indies are Born
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Credit: Jackie Roman for InsideHook Freelance travel photographer Matt Hranek had a windfall … literally … the helped him and his partner Yolanda Edwards launch a dream in print. The couple, who met on the staff of Condé Nast Traveler...
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The Catalog Mindset is Empowering the Future of Retail
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It’s a multi-channel world out there, and we live it every day. We jump from direct mail to smartphone to brick and mortar purchase then back again to our tablets to order a missing size online. We do this almost...
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Raising a Glass to Wine, Whiskey and Cigars
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Don’t call Marvin Shanken a publisher. The man behind Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado and Whisky Advocate calls himself “an experience maker in addition to a content provider.” “People think of me as a businessman or an entrepreneur, I’m really an...
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More Americans Went to the Library than the Movies Last Year… Really
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It seems hard to believe, but in 2019 more Americans went to the library than the movies. “The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has...
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A Flip of the Page in the Catalog Industry
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Patagonia - Winter 2018 catalog design project by Thienkim Cao Stable, and possibly growing. That’s how many industry experts are positioning direct mail catalogs after a robust holiday season, according to David Sharp in the Associated Press. “Industry experts say...
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Paper and the Art of the Comeback… a Global Perspective
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“It’s a vital tool that’s evolved over thousands of years,” notes the narrator in this BBC video How Paper is Making a Comeback, “enabling the world to share stories, news and religious scripture. The video is part of a BBC...
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