Annual subs to new Sportsnet magazine from Rogers may sell for $1.50 an issue

We are learning a bit more about Rogers Publishing's new Sportsnet magazine, to be launched in the fall. For one thing, the price point. 
An online survey being conducted now suggests that a single copy price may be $4.95, a one-year, 26-issue subscription could be $39 (about $1.50 per issue) and a monthly subscription available to Rogers Advantage customers could be discounted 10% to $3 a month

U.S. Q1 newsstand sales reported to be down almost 6% from Q1 last year

First quarter 2011 newsstand sales in the U.S. were down almost 6 per cent from the same period a year earlier, according to research from newsstand research and data company MagNet that was reported by Folio:. 
The  researchers said they expected that the second quarter will be better, boosted by the royal wedding and bin Laden's death. It estimates that the royal wedding coverage for People

Not one, not two, but three covers on Toronto Life June

 Newsstands that carry Toronto Life will be receiving one of three covers of the June issue, which goes on sale May 12. An equal number of copies of the three different covers will be shipped at random. This is a first for the magazine. The cover subjects are
Malin Akerman (homegrown Holywood "it girl") -- shot by George Pimentel
Aishwarya Rai (a nod to Toronto's hosting of the Indian Film

Mind my back; Men's Fashion in polybag makes Fashion invisible

I note that on my local Shoppers Drug Mart rack, the current (spring) issue of Men's Fashion, polybagged with its parent, Fashion magazine, is strongly evident. The two magazines are back-to-back in the bag, which means that May issue of Fashion magazine is facing the rack, completely hidden. I'm somehow sure that this wasn't the intention...
Related posts:Men's Fashion spring edition apparently

Major U.S. newsstand distributor tacks on a $50 monthly "service charge"

This is an ominous development for independent publishers. Source Interlink, one of the largest wholesalers in the magazine business in the U.S. has unilaterally announced that it is tacking on a $50 per month charge to all accounts to cover chain solicitation, distribution analysis, allotment management, and online sales tracking. And here we thought that these things were paid by their cut of

Subscription skidmarks longer in Canada than U.S., but single copy sales do better: ABC

A follow-up on yesterday's report on ABC 6-month data: Canadian consumer magazines' total paid and verified circulation fell 4.03%, compared with a 1.2% drop in the U.S. 
Subscription sales in Canada fell 5.9%, compared with 1.2% in the U.S. 
Single copy sales in Canada fell 6.1%, compared with 7.3% in the U.S.

Rogers titles show strongly in single copy sales in latest ABC circulation data

Latest Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) six-month data ended December 31, 2010 shows that several magazines have enjoyed double-digit growth in total paid and verified average per issue circulation.
Big gainers among consumer magazines:Montreal Centre-Ville, up 98.3% to 3,888 (also 38,544 controlled)
Moi & Cie, up 44.2% to 60,073 (also 1,767 controlled)
Hamilton Magazine, up 39% to 24,459 (

Why it's hard to find a good magazine newsstand

Readers are finding outlets for single magazine copies fewer and farther between in North America, according to a story in Advertising Age. Quoting data from the Magazine Information Network, the story says that 18,000 retail outlets for magazines disappeared in North America between December 2007 and now -- a decline of 11.3%. Although subscriptions comprise the vast majority of most magazines'

Style at Home trumpets newsstand performance

Style at Home magazine wants everyone to know that even though its management has changed (a new publisher and new editor-in-chief in the past year) it is achieving record-breaking success in single copy sales. A release from the Transcontinental magazine says that the May 2010 issue was the best performing May issue on record and the July 2010 "white cover" issue (shown) is the second-best

Digital Newsstand has 153 magazines signed up and sold 2,138 subs in first 9 months

Some nine months since Magazines Canada partnered with Zinio to launch the Digital Newsstand, we were curious about how the program for its members is going and what kind of results it was achieving. Here's where things stood as of June 16:153 titles have signed up to participate in the program with 117 magazines live on the site
Almost all are selling both single copies and subscriptions; a

Canadian Newsstand Awards entry deadlines loom

The early-bird deadline for the Canadian Newsstand Awards is this Friday, June 18 and the final entry deadline is Friday, July 9. Winners will be announced at a special reception in the fall. The competition is open to all English and French-language magzines and recognizes excellence in newsstand sales and cover execution. The event is sponsored by HDS Retail/ Great Canadian News/ Maison de la

Can Facebook sell print subscriptions?

A system is being marketed now that would allow Facebook users to buy print magazine subscriptions without leaving the Facebook site or even its newsfeed. Alvenda, a company that builds e-commerce applications, is collaborating wtih Synapse, a division of Time Inc. that sells may of that company's magazines, according to a story from Crain's New York Business. If you share a magazine article link

9th annual newsstand awards launched; early bird entries by June 18

This year's Canadian Newsstand Awards have been launched, with the early bird deadline for entry June 18. Now in its ninth year, the awards have one new category, more prizes, and more prize money. The competition is open to all English and French-language Canadian magazines and recognizes excellence in newsstand sales and cover execution by Canadian magazine publishers. Publishers, circulators,

New European magazine kiosks will feature preview touch screens

Pushing back against the erosion of single copy magazine sales and the closing of many newsstands in Europe, a leading shopping mall owner will be launching a new kind of  sales outlet, according to a story from  lesaffaires.com. Unibail-Rodamco, which owns a hundred shopping malls in Europe and 35 in France, is partnering wtih Mediakiosq, a company which controls some 800 newsstands in France.

Radical and indy magazines fight for newsstand survival in Britain

Access to conventional newsstands in Great Britain are increasingly being put beyond the reach of independent, radical and progressive magazines, according to an article in the Guardian. Magazines and papers distributed by the Independent News Collective (Ink) are being crowded out by more mainstream titles who can afford to pay premiums for space."Newsagents take what Smiths [News] tells them is

Retail print and digital editions will complement each other, says Condé Nast CEO

It's not at all surprising that, writing for the February newsletter of the International Periodical Distributors Association that the head of Condé Nast praises retail as being responsible for the powerful bond that readers form with magazines. What is a little more surprising is that CEO Charles Townsend makes a strong case for digital magazines -- the antithesis of going to the store and

Quote, unquote: On the benefits of hitting bottom

The newsstand sales decline the last two years has been devastatingly steep, but it may have had a long overdue newsstand cleansing effect. Despite the record sales declines there are several reasons to be, at least partially, optimistic that newsstand sales may have bottomed out in the second half of 2009.-- from a posting on Audience Development

Selling magazines more cheaply doesn't necessarily lead to selling more of them

If ever publishers needed a wake-up about the relationship between price and reader value, it may have been provided recently by a report in the newsletter CircMatters. It reported that while many publishers in the U.S. have allowed (or driven) their subscription prices down in the hopes of maintaining readership, the result is often lower, not higher, sales. According to a report in MediaPost,

Study to see if Canadian magazines sell better when grouped together

The Periodical Marketers of Canada are undertaking a three-month study to see whether Canadian magazine titles sell better when grouped together on the newsstand or displayed mixed in with other (largely U.S.) magazines according to different categories.  A story in Mastheadonline says 70 Canadian titles will be displayed in a dedicated space at three International News location in downtown

Cappel's Circulation to be merged into The New Single Copy

One well-known circulation newsletter, Capell's Circulation Report, is being merged into another, The New Single Copy, published by John Harrington. According to a story in Audience Development, Capell subscribers will now receive The New Single Copy. CCR published 20 times a year; TNSC publishes weekly (45 times a year) and costs subscribers US$425 annually.
Dan Capell launched CCR in 1982 and