The Neilsen Co. surveyed more than 27,000 consumers in 52 countries to find out their feelings about paying for online media subscriptions. Movies and music top the list of services that people would be willing to pay for online, approaching 60%. Games, professionally produced video and magazines hover around 50% and newspapers are just above [...]
ABC’s Rapid Report has some promising news for Women’s Titles. Paid subscriptions saw meaningful improvement during the second half of 2009. Most major titles in the Women’s category saw slight to moderate increases compared to the same period the year before. The titles that saw the biggest increases are Time Inc.’s InStyle, Meredith’ Siempre Mujer, Condé [...]
In an effort to get back revenue that his print outlets have been losing, Rupert Murdoch is planning to charge for subscriptions to all of NewsCorp’s online content. This would probably include news websites like Dow Jones, Marketwatch, Financial News, and The New York Post to name a few. NewsCorp-owned Wall Street Journal was one [...]
The following announcement was prepared for the Publishing Industry by Dan Capell’s family.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of E. Daniel (Dan) Capell, age 64, who died peacefully at his home in Barnegat Light, NJ, on January 11, 2010, after a courageous, three-year battle with cancer. Dan had been a leader [...]
Dan Capell has announced that his newsletter, Capell’s Circulation Report, will be taken over by John Harrington, publisher of The New Single Copy. Current subscribers to Capell’s Circulation Report will receive The New Single Copy for the next one to two years, and Harrington will incorporate content from CCR’s 28-year archive in future issues of [...]
The magazine is expected to reduce the number of copies it delivers, and promises advertisers, by more than 30 percent, from 2.9 to 2 million. In January, TV Guide lowered its circulation from 3.2 million to its current level. The New York Post Sept. 13, 2009
Good magazine is looking to increase its subscriber base and up its contributions to global non-profits — that is, to “do well by doing good” — by playing the “name-your-own-price” game for subscriptions. Good has donated 100% of its subscription revenue to nonprofit organizations since its launch two years ago. The magazine is hoping that [...]
Less than two weeks after stepping down as CEO of Alpha Media Group, Kent Brownridge has joined the ranks as general manager of the US edition of OK! magazine. The move to OK! puts Brownridge in familiar territory. During his 31 years with Jann Wenner, he had a big hand in the successful conversion of Wenner [...]
The latest Fas-Fax report was released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation this morning. Trade magazine paid and non-paid circulation remained flat during the first half, but did report a slight increase of 0.85% over the same time period last year. The largest gainers were Los Angeles Business Journal, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, and [...]
Longtime publishing industry observer Baird Davis points out that overall 6% unit sale decline was concentrated in the top twelve newsstand titles. The rest of the line (500 titles or so representing some 50% of the business) posted a unit drop of less than 2% and essentially flat retail dollar sales. Moreover, he posits that [...]