Seven Great Tips for Social Media from EWIP’s Women’s Leadership Conference

Exceptional Women in Publishing’s Women’s Leadership Conference, held last week in San Francisco, offered publishing’s women leaders tips, tactics, and strategies for their content publications. A few from the social media front... more »

Too Much At Once: SXSW 2013 Report from the Trenches

Arrived in Austin late Saturday night in time for a beautiful, noisy thunderstorm—a sparkling deluge that soaked the parched earth and was welcomed joyously by the grateful natives. It left behind a clear blue sky and a cheerful sun blazing... more »

 

How Time Inc. Should Reinvent Itself as an Independent Publisher

When Time Warner spins off its magazine unit, the world's biggest magazine company will become an anomaly: a publicly traded media company consisting entirely of magazines. Time Inc. titles were once the crown jewels of media, generating nearly a... more »

Who will unlock the digital promise of IPC Media?

IPC Media – one of the world’s most famous magazine groups – is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. Or rather, it isn’t. The London-based company may have decided there’s no reason to party. Business is tough, copy sales and... more »

Ogden Publications uprooting Utne Reader

Imagine Garrison Keillor moving "A Prairie Home Companion" to Des Moines or the Guthrie shuffling off to Omaha. The equivalent of those improbable scenarios is happening in the publishing world: The Utne Reader, a landmark magazine based in the Twin... more »

 

Fifty Shades author E L James to release new DIY book on how to write 'mummy porn'

She is the undisputed queen of 'mummy porn' - her erotic tales of romance and bondage having both titillated and inspired millions of housewives across the world. And now Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James is to release... more »

Beware Random House's Ebook Imprints

Random House’s ebook-only imprints Hydra and Alibi have come under fire for having overly acquisitive deal terms. Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware revealed a couple of weeks ago that, based on a deal memo she had seen, Hydra’s terms are... more »

Will Authors Get Compensated for Used E-Book Sales?

On January 29, Amazon Technologies Inc. received a patent pertaining to the "secondary market for digital objects." According to the patent abstract, the technology will enable Amazon customers to transfer -- and presumably sell -- e-books, MP3s, and other digital... more »

 

Brown Printing Expands Mobile Solutions through the Acquisition of Nellymoser

Brown Printing Company today announced the acquisition of Nellymoser, a Boston-based mobile marketing and technology company. Nellymoser is a mobile innovator and a pioneer in rich media delivery, having deployed over 800 print-to-digital campaigns in 2012 for 50 of the... more »

Sonnet Media launches pubspring.us, and the PubSpring platform

Sonnet Media recently launched pubspring.us, the online home of the PubSpring author platform. pubspring.us features a digest of content from authors on the PubSpring network, information on working with Sonnet Media, and more. Sonnet Media is a digital consultancy that... more »

Publisher’s Clearing House Chooses CertainSource by eWayDirect to Amplify Customer Acquisition

eWayDirect today announced Publishers Clearing House has deployed the new CertainSource 2.0 multi-channel B2C customer acquisition solution to accelerate customer and revenue.... more »

2013 Publishing Business Conference & Expo Call for Speakers

The Publishing Business Conference & Expo, the nation's largest conference and expo for book, magazine and journal publishers, will take place September 23-25, 2013, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square. The Publishing Business Conference & Expo is produced... more »