A couple of years ago, Don outlined the attributes of a premium content subscription: not a website itself, but the thing that customers buy – the content subscription.
In updating this
Digital-only magazines have had their ups, downs, and (in some cases) its “in-betweens.” While some digital magazines have remained powerful and influential after going digital, others have since been discontinued. And
Magazines are designed to be read from front to back. They have covers and a table of contents. Magazines are arranged in a series of articles. Compare that with other
Do you run or contribute to an online magazine?
Most of our readers would consider themselves in the magazine publishing industry, that is true. But do you think you run an
"Do your job."
Those are the famous words of New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick, and the mantra of the whole team, who I imagine you already know just won their
Building relationships and high-quality content serve subscription websites like Scribd, The Telegraph, and Food52
Do you remember when subscription websites started using paywalls to add a new revenue stream to their
Online publishing strategies have grown exponentially since digital magazines have transformed the industry. It is, after all multiplatform strategy, and media companies are wise to maximize as many channels as
Making sense of the latest magazine industry trends via top digital publishers: Rodale, Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst, IBT
So much news about magazine industry trends during the past month, in
For some digital magazines, the effort to generate online ad revenue can evoke a verse from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water everywhere, /
Have you ever spent time poking around on your iPad, just to see how customers feel about the digital magazines they buy and subscribe to? We make this a habit
Paywalls for online content are a work in progress, as publishers perfect the strategy with tiers, bundles, memberships, and other tactics. But there's no question that they have a place
Uploading your videos to YouTube has its benefits. Your videos get indexed on the world's second largest search engine, it’s free and life is good. But what if you have
Every month, we check in with Folio:'s sister magazine, min, to monitor big comings, goings, and doings in the magazine publishing industry. This roundup features plenty of executive personnel changes,
Once or twice a month we like to check in on digital magazine publishers making some noise with promotions, mergers, new business models, or major changes in course. We do
Digital magazines comprise the whole ecosystem of paperless magazines.
If a story can be read digitally, it's a digital magazine. It doesn't matter if it's read on the web, or a
Some publishers have found Facebook to be a significant form of referral traffic, especially since Facebook has taken efforts to highlight publisher content.
With its print reincarnation established, Newsweek 2.0 is setting its sights on its original mission: a robust digital presence. Capital New York reports that Editor-in-Chief Jim Impoco is devoting considerably
As Mequoda members know, email newsletters, despite pronouncements about their demise, are still strong performers for publishers, David Carr writes in his New York Times Media Equation column.
These digital magazine publishing posts dive into digital magazine creation, publishing, and monetization. They are currently our most popular articles about digital magazine publishing.
It’s not who you might think
Now that AAM is allowing publishers to report their tablet magazine circulation separately, it’s become possible to track those who are leading the way in
The dust has settled after Time’s personnel changes during the first week of April, and Tom Weber has found himself near the top of the heap.
An assistant managing editor at
Today we bring you another installment in our ongoing magazine pricing series, What Big Publishers Are Doing Wrong.
OK, it’s not really a series. But lately we’ve been taking up the
What do you do when your the head of a well-known financial publishing brand and none of your heirs have gone into the family business? Well, for starters you start
Will Newsweek's digital magazine subscription pricing work? Ken Doctor from Nieman Labs has all the details about Newsweek's relaunch. We found the part about their digital magazine subscription pricing to
Rap Genius is a popular music lyric database site that has grown quite popular in the last year. However, Rap Genius did something incredibly bad for its SEO earlier in
Meredith’s print magazine Allrecipes is only a month old but expansion is already in the game plan. Bill Mickey writes, “After just one month in print, Allrecipes, the print extension
Paywalls have been big for publishers by bringing in subscription website money. The Daily Dish is going at paywalls in another way; by accepting tweets or bitcoins in exchange for
The New York Times is reporting that Meredith will be creating five new video web series in 2014. They'll debut under a new division called Meredith Originals. Stuart Elliot writes,
Does this work on TV or the web? That is the question Bloomberg TV producers are asking themselves now. Digiday has a full report on how this digital first strategy
Even though Jeff Bezos' purchase this week knocked them out of the spotlight, a relatively unknown company, IBT, publisher of IBTimes.com bought Newsweek. What nobody is failing to mention in
Newsweek was sold over the weekend to IBT Media, reports Capital New York. "IAC/InterActive reached a deal to sell Newsweek, which has been publishing since January as a digital-only version
The New York Times has started experimenting with its placement of comments, reports Journalism.co.uk.
Marc Lavallee, a deputy editor of interactive news at the New York Times said, "the comments were
TabTimes is reporting that Apple has been found guilty of "conspiring with publishers to fix the price of electronic books, dating far back as 2009".
"The five publishers charged in
New print on demand opportunities are were presented to magazine publishers at Retail Marketplace 2013 according to IPDA Publishing & Retail news. Ingram Content Group (ICG) presented options to help
Digital publishing news for July 1, 2013
Salon Media Group saw increased revenue Q1 due to a nice boost in Web traffic reports Folio: "Salon is up 21 percent in net
Apple Newsstand is making it easier and more efficient for magazine and newspaper lovers worldwide to gain access to their favorite reads.
Simon Wainwright conducted research on how consumers are
Publishing is at a crossroads. Are you ready?
No one is in business to fail. But with demand for digital content off the charts, no one can afford to put off
Mequoda’s Audience Development Summit 2012 is more than just talking heads. Not only do you learn the secrets and strategies of the leaders in Internet marketing in six eye-opening sessions,
While digital magazines are still just a tiny piece of the revenue pie for most publishers, there is some growth to report on the number of readers buying digital editions.
It's the "social" in social media that makes it so effective. Consider how the always sassy and witty @ColonelTribune has built a following of more than 807k followers as compared
Let's start with a little breakdown of why Facebook just became the #1 place to generate revenue in social media.
Facebook accounts for 52.1% percent of all sharing on the web.
The 2009 Mequoda Hotlist is our annual listing of the fastest growing Mequoda System Publishers in America. The multi-media publishers in the Mequoda Hotlist are used by the Mequoda
The Kindle Wireless Reader has forever changed online publishing, for the better?
Ever wonder how many Kindles has Amazon sold to date? Apparently, that is the million dollar question.
Editors gather for a candid discussion about what’s working online and what isn’t
Jacob Weisberg, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, opened this session by asking: Why aren’t magazines better
Google’s Analytics Evangelist, Avinash Kaushik, tells magazine publishers why some of their sites “suck” and what kind of thinking is required to fix them
Two keynote addresses at the MPA’s 4th magazines 24/7 conference focused on getting publishers to let go of their content and partner with the social networking and video sharing giants
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