Posts Tagged ‘magazine industry’

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Chrissy Sievers

Apple’s Subscription Service – Is it a Good Thing?

Apple recently announced its plan to tack a 30 percent fee on to publishers who charge subscriptions through its App Store. These fees apply to magazines, books, newspapers, music and videos. Apple is also dictating that these publishers can't offer their subscriptions elsewhere at a lower price, and the consumers will have the option to withhold to sharing their details β€” such as name or location β€” with the publisher.

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Nancy Henderson

Video of the Week: Magazines, The Power of Print

I am a print magazine person. I love getting lost in a well-written story, and though I now read as many blogs and news sites as print publications, I strongly defend print to those who tell me that the format is in its death throes. Naturally, the magazine industry wants to fight the notion that it is a dinosaur fighting extinction in a new media age. So a group of powerful publishers came together on a multi-million dollar campaign to promote "The Power of Print," kicking off with a video on YouTube. Hmmm.

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Bobby Stark

2009 Industry Forecast

Have you noticed that magazines are losing weight? It’s not your imagination β€” magazines are facing the same problems afflicting the rest of the media business: less revenue, dwindling readership and a rapid-fire digital world that makes weeklies and monthlies alike seem like old news.

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