Penny Publications, the leading publisher of puzzle magazines in North America, has signed a new agreement with Comag Marketing Group LLC (CMG) for the continued sale, marketing and distribution of all of its titles – under both the Penny Press and Dell Magazine brands – in the United States, Canada and abroad. The agreement was [...]
Athlon Sports Communications, Inc., has signed an agreement with Comag Marketing Group LLC. (CMG) for the sale, marketing and distribution of its complete portfolio of consumer magazines, beginning in January 2010. The first issue to be managed by CMG will be Athlon Racing (on-sale 1/19/10).
The U.K.’s ASDA grocery chain, owned by WALMART USA, is seeking “outrageous” concessions from magazine publishers. An ASDA email memo, sent to British magazine publishers and distributors has outlined a series of proposed conditions with which publishers are requested to comply. These proposals are as follows;
- Asda’s demands include a request for two pages of editorial or [...]
Hearst Business Media and IDG have partnered in the acquisition of Ee365.cn, a news and technology website that will target Chinese engineers. Ee365.cn launched in June 2006 and is divided into 21 channels based on several different industrial segments. China’s Publishing House of Electronic Industry is also involved in the partnership, though the exact details [...]
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 [...]
LOUD3R, a network of 25 websites that aggregate enthusiast online content, has bought 500 domain names and plans on creating 10 new sites a month until all 500 are up and running. The network is similar to that of Inform Technologies which is used by Conde Nast and is based on an internally-built semantic publishing [...]
Paul Wells, of Canada’s Maclean’s magazine, complains about the tardy release of magazines in the Canadian marketplace.
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According to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 9, Source Interlink Distribution, LLC, claims that Time Warner Retail has breached contract, is taking part in discriminatory and retaliatory business practices, has promoted unfair competition, and is interfering with existing retailer customers. The suit claims that Time Warner Retail broke an agreement [...]
The third issue includes features about retail sales opportunities for small and mid-size publishers, mag cover selection success strategies and the latest attempt at no-return, “firm” book sales. Rich Alleger, Rodale’s svp of retail sales, writes the cover package about retail sales opportunities. IPDA Newsstand Forum (May 2008)
The move, announced in a statement today by ceo Jeffrey Bekes, was the latest in a series of efforts to trim what has been for years the world’s largest media company. The full text of the announcement is available here. The New York Times (Apr. 30, 2008)