2/03/2010
ACP Media New Zealand has acquired mass market food magazine recipes+ in a deal both parties describe as the perfect fit.
recipes+ was launched in Australia in 2003 by independent publisher Knockout Media Pty Ltd as a low cover priced quarterly, aimed at budget conscious cooks. Read More…
25/02/2010
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Emily Simpson to the position of Editor Little Treasures. Read More…
15/02/2010
In the latest round of magazine circulation results (the ABC audit of circulation) NZ House & Garden is one of only two titles in the home category to show increasing circulation in recent times. NZ House & Garden is showing increased retail and subscription sales (to 47,600 copies a month) and, with more than half a million readers each month (Nielsen figure), the magazine remains the clear market leader in the home category.
15/02/2010
Women’s Day magazine is hitting back at claims made by TV One’s Breakfast presenter Ali Mau on this morning’s Breakfast show.
15/02/2010
Fairfax Magazine’s The Cut has a scorecard any top golfer would envy and is enjoying a massive surge in circulation after the golfing magazine re-launched as a bimonthly title.
5/01/2010
Most successful print sources will be those that take a multichannel approach.
BRUCE JENSEN FolioMag.com
22/12/2009
Vanessa Voltolina FolioMag.com
As publishers continue to seek out the newest and best technologies to enhance digital readership (and drive online revenue), a slew of advanced e-readers—such as the Apple tablet, Mag+ and an iPhone viewer for digital magazines—are redefining online editions.
Of course, new concepts and prototypes for what a digital magazine could look like have been popping up with relative frequency. And obviously, the ideas are a boon to the industry, since they mean publishers are looking beyond not only ink and paper, but the initial versions of digital mags (remember when digital editions were just replicas of print?). Read More…
8/12/2009
Partnership includes Condé Nast, Time Inc., Hearst, Meredith and News Corp.
Jason Fell FolioMag.com Read More…
8/12/2009
A Fairfax Digital executive has rejected the idea of introducing paid-for-content across its online mastheads, arguing Rupert Murdoch has been “misinformed” about how to make money online.
Speaking at this morning’s AIMIA conference on the future of digital media, Dale McCarthy, director of corporate development at Fairfax Digital, said the debate around paid-for-content would be one of the “sizzling” online topics in early 2010, but added “I hope (the conversation) dies because I’m tired of it.”
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19/11/2009
Findings from a new study by Forrester Research in the US show bad news for newspaper and magazine publishers hoping to boost their flagging businesses by charging for content: Most consumers won’t pay for it.
The study polled around 4,700 U.S. consumers, 80 per cent of whom indicated they would be unwilling to pay for access to newspaper and magazine articles and other content.
