Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek For a Song, Plus Up to $5 Million
What’s one of the biggest names in magazine publishing worth? These days, maybe $5 million.
That’s the high end of the range Bloomberg will be paying for BusinessWeek, reports BusinessWeek. Next question: How many of the magazine’s employees stay on once the deal closes later this year? BusinessWeek publisher Keith Fox can’t make any assurances. But he does call the deal “exciting.”
Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Here Are the Condé Nast Cuts: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet, Cookie Closing
Friday, October 2, 2009
Publishers Like Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say?
Time Inc. has spent the past few months convincing other publishers to join a new joint venture aimed at a market that doesn’t really exist yet–magazine-like publications to be delivered via e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s rumored tablet. Publishers like the idea. What will Apple and Amazon say?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Time Warner’s $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale
Monday, September 28, 2009
Time Warner Dumping Its Magazines? Not So Fast.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Measure This: Adobe Buys Web Traffic-Counter Omniture for $1.8 Billion
What do you do if you’ve got a grip on the Web/design software market? Expand into the Web measurement business, apparently. Adobe, whose Photoshop and Acrobat software offerings dominate the Web publishing business, will pay $1.8 billion to acquire Omniture, whose Web traffic measurement software is that industry’s standard.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Who’s Going to Work for Nikki Finke?
Monday, August 31, 2009
Back to the Future: Financial Times Launching “Wealth” Magazine
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sony’s New Reader, Plus Free Library Books, Passes My “Dad Test.” Is That Enough?
Sony started selling e-book readers long before Amazon, but blew its lead. So how can it catch up with its new device, which looks and works much like the Kindle, but costs $100 more? Maybe Sony can do it with the help of free books from your local library.
After Sony unveiled its new line of readers this morning, I posed that question to Sony executive Steve Haber, who immediately pointed out that his “Daily Edition” machine has a slightly bigger screen than the Kindle 2 and boasts a touchscreen.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-Be Kindle Killer
Here’s another company choosing a side in the coming e-book war: Irex Technologies, a Dutch company that plans on selling a Kindle-like reader in the U.S. this fall, has allied itself with Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore. Earlier this summer, would-be Kindle rival Plastic Logic announced a similar pact. And in other “e-book reader made by someone other than Amazon” news, Sony has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Good Enough for Nikki Finke, Good Enough for Celebrity Editrix Bonnie Fuller: Mail.com Lands Another High-Profile Hire
Want a media job? Dust off your resume, highlight your experience covering entertainment and Hollywood, and then give Jay Penske a call. The owner of Mail.com Media Corp. continues to make high-profile hires for his burgeoning Web publishing business. The latest: Celebrity editrix Bonnie Fuller, who will take over this Hollywood Life site.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sarah Palin Is a Hit for Vanity Fair. But She’s No Jessica Simpson–Or Miley Cyrus!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Is Bigger Better? Here Come the Supersized Web Ads.
Earlier this year, an online publishing trade group promised to get its members to start running new, bigger, harder-to-ignore ads by July. So here they are: The Online Publishers Association says 37 sites, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.com, will start selling the plus-sized ads this week. Now we’ll see if they work.
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