Modern Luxury Media is still going full-steam ahead with their upcoming New York City launches, despite the country’s economic downturn. The company very recently acquired Juli B. Inc., publisher of high-end e-newsletters serving NYC and 13 other major cities in the US and abroad. Modern Luxury will use JuliB.com, which reaches 700,000 readers through its e-newsletters, [...]
“The Sun” will be raising the cover price of its weekday paper to 30p in London and the south-east. Last September, it slashed its price from 35p to 20p and then in May increased it to 25p. The ABC circulation figures reported that the paper has managed its fifth year-on-year circulation increase with a sales rise [...]
A multitude of familiar Western magazines have hit newsstands in India in the past 12 months, including Indian versions of Vogue, Rolling Stone, OK!, Hello, Maxim, FHM, Golf Digest, People and Marie Claire. GQ and Fortune are expected follow suit. However, many of the magazines bear little resemblance to their Western namesakes. [...]
Zinio LLC, the leading digital distributor of magazines and books, has partnered with GlobaCollect to offer subscribers a wider selection of electronic payment options, including international methods, for their online subscriptions and purchases. MarketWatch (July 9, 2008)
AMI, today, released monthly circulation information for Star, Shape and National Enquirer, down 10 percent, down 8 percent and down 11 percent, respectively. Last week, AMI’s fiscal report showed year-end revenue increases, largely on the ad revenue strength of Shape, Star and Men’s Fitness. Folio (July 8, 2008)
The New York Times’ Stephen J. Dubner raises some interesting questions about Time Inc.’s new, Netflix-like Maghound.com online magazine service. Chief among them – do readers really want to trade in and out magazines the way they do movies? (Doesn’t the industry make a lot of hay out of readers’ deep connections to particular titles?) Dubner does see Maghound’s [...]
Hearst Magazines announced that it will shutter Quick & Simple magazine effective with the July 29th issue that is currently on newsstands. The company will instead shift its focus to the 300,000-circulation magazine’s “newly enhanced Web site.” A representative for Hearst said that the company was still “committed to introducing and acquiring print titles, investing [...]
Culture + Travel, having been hit with budget cuts by its parent company Louise Blouin Media, is making changes to the magazine’s publication schedule. Starting in November, the title will move from a bimonthly to a quarterly. C+T, which operates under a controlled circulation model, will also be sending the magazine to 30,000 fewer subscribers [...]
With the price of gas increasing weekly, magazines are facing steeper-then-usual sales declines. Particularly, men’s titles and news magazines are down the most, though categories across the board show declines. To combat this decline, some different options are being thrown around. Some titles have the opportunity of hiking up cover prices. For others, with the average cover [...]
Instead of publishers sending out content to their audiences, audiences are now sending content to each other via Facebook, Digg, and other networking site according to Frank Cutitta, the general manager of IDG Connect. At the 2008 Circulation Management Conference, Cutitta spoke about how he helped form IDG Connect, a centralized database and lead-generation vehicle, [...]