The How-To Guide to Make Money in Magazine Media in 2018
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“I make money the old-fashioned way: I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” That famous quote from Malcolm Forbes kicks of FIPP’s 2017-2018 Innovation in Magazine Media World Report. While it’s meant to be cute,...
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Print vs. Digital: How We Really Consume Our Magazines – 2017 edition
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UPDATED 2017 STATISTICS 9/29/17  Freeport Press promoted a 14-question survey (added 7 questions vs. 2016 edition) to a variety of magazine readers in the North America - demographics chart below. The survey was open for 3 days in September 2017...
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Print Dead? Piffle.
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Shaun Donnelly, the London-based publisher behind the design lifestyle publication Manimalist, is one of us. “Try to imagine picking up a fresh print magazine; feeling the weight, quickly flicking your fingers through the pages and prising them open so you...
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Stack and the Irresistible Element of Print Surprise
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When Steve Watson created Stack, an indie title subscription service, it was with this goal: to make quality indie magazines available to a global audience, offering them the exposure they could never afford to garner on their own. “Each month...
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Readers Looking for Real Context and Analysis Turn to News Magazines, not Facebook
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They may get the majority of their daily news from social sites and digital feeds, but research shows that consumers need and want something more substantial, with greater context and understanding. And they trust weekly news magazines to provide that...
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Crowdfunded Journalism and the Rise of Publicly Driven News 
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Projects funded through Kickstarter represent a growing trend in covering the news that truly matters to readers. As major news outlets grow more and more entrenched in the sound-bite, always-on news cycle, there is a small but growing trend toward...
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A Creative Talks about Print’s Real Value
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Want to know what’s really going on in commercial printing? Look at it from a designer’s point of view. “I genuinely believe that printing and therefore commercial print has something to offer that is a viable alternative to digital content...
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Hey Print, Good Work in 2015
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It was seventeen years ago that the e-reader was introduced to consumers, notes Jenny Shank in MediaShift. And while the technology has wrought enormous changes on the way we publish, market and purchase books, it hasn’t changed one fundamental fact:...
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On Snow and Clouds and Print Magazines
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What a great analogy from our good friend Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni. This is terrific: “As the magazine and magazine media world navigate their way through the maze of problems and possible solutions to the print + digital dilemma that...
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Economist Launches App on Apple Watch
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When we first heard that The Economist was launching a magazine app for the Apple Watch, we had to laugh, picturing an airport lounge full of people reading one word at a time on their tiny wristlets. Fortunately, that’s not...
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