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Captain Obvious and the Magazine Industry News
23 March 2017|Magazine, Newsstand, Print
Joe Berger’s got a good rant going. He goes on at length about the need to up the bar on news coverage of the magazine industry in a recent blog post. “News reports about newsstand sales fascinate me,” he writes....
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Print is Up, E-books are Down — the 2016 UK Book Sales Figures
21 March 2017|Print
For many readers, nothing beats a print book. And while it might be tempting to call it “old-fashioned,” the younger generation is driving the sales of printed books. “More than 360m books were sold in 2016 – a 2% jump...
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1,000 Issues and Still Going Strong
21 March 2017|Magazine, Print
It’s a milestone any title would be proud of: 1,000 issues in print. For Steve George of Model Railroader, it’s proof positive that a passionate and connected audience will stick with you. “In many ways, specialized interest has been around...
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3 Hots Topics in the Magazine Media Landscape
20 March 2017|Advertising, content, Digital, Magazine, Print
Digital ad revenue; the evolving B2B business model; and the aim to resolve the mission versus margin gap in association publishing: These, according to Folio’s Tony Silber, are the three key issues defining magazine media today. 1. Digital Ad Doldrums...
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Eye on the Prize in Graphic Design
17 March 2017|design, Magazine, Print
To have and to hold; according to Steve Heller writing in Print Mag, that is the penultimate value of a printed title. Heller has worked on the team at Eye for almost 20 years now and feels no apologies are...
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Empire: Turning a Title into a Brand
15 March 2017|Magazine, Print
Ask Empire Magazine’s Terri White to define her overall goal, and she pulls no punches. “To make the world's biggest film magazine the world's biggest film and entertainment brand,” she recently told Mary Hogarth writing in InPublishing. She’s well on...
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Adobe and their Amazing Print Magazine
14 March 2017|design, Magazine, Print
“What you hold in your hands is a new Ninety Nine U magazine, a quarterly design publication brought to you by Adobe Creative Cloud. In these pages, Ninety Nine U invites you to explore the creative world through the lens of...
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Teens and Tweens are Hungry…for Print
13 March 2017|Magazine, Print
The younger market offers a unique opportunity for publishers to offer an escape from the digital life. Any parent of teens or tweens will tell you they are always hungry. And it seems they aren’t just hungry for food. According...
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How to Build a Media Brand that Works
13 March 2017|Magazine, Print
“Always, always do your own thing.” That’s rule number one of Skift’s Rafat Ali when it comes to building a reliable media brand. An unabashed fanboy of Monocle magazine, Ali offers ten rules to brand by in this post in...
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New Launches are Up By How Much Now?
06 March 2017|Magazine, Print
One of the challenges in the magazine industry is parsing the numbers. Depending on the source, (MPA, Min, PPA, etc.) the stories can vary pretty dramatically. So when we saw this figure cross our desk, we had to take a...
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