Category: Magazines
How do you solve a problem like USPS?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
The United States Postal Service (USPS), which lost $20 billion dollars during the last two fiscal years, wants to do what all government entities do when facing revenue and business volume loses…raise rates. Called an “exigent rate increase,” the USPS is expected to ask for steep increases that will impose new economic hardship on magazines […]
Short Order Publishing
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
Newsstand operations have been notorious for their inefficiencies and waste. Now there’s an innovation that could change the business. But is it too late? Meganews Magazines has introduced a kiosk that prints magazines on demand. In a space smaller than a traditional newsstand, the kiosk uses touchscreens to retrieve the digital files of more than […]
Online subscription pricing on the rise
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
Business Media reports that publishers are taking a tougher position on pricing their online content (http://www.btobonline.com/article/20130802/MEDIABUSINESS10/308029996/online-publishers-raising-subscription-prices-tightening-free-access?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editorial&utm_campaign=daily#). Not only has the average price paid for an online subscription gone up over the past three years, publishers have reduced the number of free pages visitors can view on publications using the metered subscription model. The broadcast model of […]
Are iPads dead?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
It may seem a little crazy, or at least greatly premature, to pronounce the demise of iPads that have only been in existence a few years. Yet the tech blogosphere is carry pieces that do just that. For example, “Is the iPad Era Already Drawing to a Close?” cites a sobering statistic that makes you […]
Magazine subscriptions: Is print dead?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
“The sensibility that print is cratering is just nuts.” So said Charles Townsend, CEO of Condé Nast last year at the Paley Center for Media (Audience Development magazine). This may seem like backward thinking to some who have placed their bets on the future dominance of digital publications, but the opinion of the head of […]