Border Crossings and Toronto Life featured in Globe and Mail weekly magazine column

Border Crossings magazine and Toronto Life are featured in the magazines column by James Adams in this week's Saturday Globe and Mail.

Columnist sees the U.S. magazine industry smaller, dominated by Big 4 and women-focussed

Audience Development columnist Baird Davis (a senior consultant with Circulation Specialists) has compiled data showing how U.S. consumer magazine benchmarks -- circulation, newsstand sales and advertising sales -- aligned in 2009, and the picture was not pretty. (Of course the results don't necessarily reflect Canadian experience.) He calculated that...Circulation of audited consumer magazines

BBC Worldwide says profits up 36.5% last year; magazine division holds its own

BBC Worldwide Ltd., the corporation's magazine and commercial division, has reported its operating profit for the year ending March up 36.5% to £145.2 million. According to a report in Press GazetteChief executive John Smith said: "Today’s figures, with profits up by 36.5 per cent, demonstrate that our strategy is working. As well as developing into a diversified global media business and

BBC may sell off some of its magazines, partner on others

BBC Worldwide is undertaking a shakeup of its multi-title magazine division and is considering selling Radio Times magazine. According to a story in the Times newspaper, BBC Worldwide is considering entering into a licensing arrangement or partnership with a rival publisher for many or all of its 50 titles, maintaining editorial control and the vaunted BBC standards while enabling the

Magazine publishers in positive territory on both sides of border

There has been some improvements in the stock values of publishing companies in the U.S. in the past year, according to a story in Folio:. For instance: Time-Warner, parent of Time Inc., hit $31.89 on Tuesday, up from a low of $20.71.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia was $5.41, up nearly 100% from its low of $1.88
Meredith Corp. was $35.05, 98% up from its 52-week low of $17.70
Playboy Enterprises

Can focussing on "lifetime value" of subscriptions save magazines?

Dependency on advertisers has for a longtime been the Achilles heel of magazine publishing, both consumer and b2b. As Howard Gossage, the iconoclastic commentator on advertising, said the readers lost control of their magazines the minute that publishers stopped raising the subscription price to cover the cost of production. As a result, advertisers inevitably have for a long times subsidized

Audio podcasts about magazine business launched by Magazines Canada

Magazines Canada is launching a series of audio podcasts called Audiomag, related to key magazine issues. The first, available now, features Paul Rossi, North American publisher of The Economist and a speaker at MagNet 2009. He talks about how he doubled his newsstand sales in just over one year.In future,there will be episodes fromAnthony Licata, Editor of Field & Stream, on how to keep service

Is Time Inc. going to be for sale?

Apologies for making you more jittery about the magazine business than you already are, there is a suggestion in the Wall Street Journal (via UK Press Gazette) that the publishing arm of Time Warner may soon be up for sale.The question is whether, in the present economic situation, there are any would-be buyers. Time and Fortune are big-name titles and the Wall Street Journal suggests that as "