Flipboard is the worldʼs first social magazine
Flipboard is the worldʼs first social magazine. Inspired by the beauty and ease of print media, Flipboardʼs mission is to fundamentally improve how people discover, view and share content across their social networks. Start reading your magazine by downloading Flipboard at www.flipboard.com. The company is based in Palo Alto, California
The Digital Revolution in Children's Publishing.
The Digital Revolution in Children’s Publishing. Print & E: Room for Both? Cannibalization of print sales has often been the chief concern about the increasing foothold of e-books and other digital products, but none of the publishers PW spoke with expressed worry that digital products would supplant traditional print (a few large publishers declined to […]
Kodak: Color Fusion is the new TransPromo
Maybe you’ve already heard about color fusion applications? These are applications that combine the power of color offset printing with the versatility of color digital printing, usually inline on an offset press. It’s fascinating technology because it gives owners of offset technology that is still performing well a chance to add some digital technology to […]
iPad Helps Glamour Produce Its "Biggest Issue In 20 Years" Amid Ad Page Rebound
In the wake of the Publisher Information Bureau’s recent promising stats about magazine ad pages and ad revenues being up for the first time in nine quarters, Conde Nast is reporting some good news about its fashion titles’ upcoming September issues, which last year were looking about as thin as the waify models gracing their […]
Catalogs by Barneys, Sears, J.C. Penney get creative
After a seven-year hiatus, Abercrombie & Fitch brought back its racy A&F Quarterly Saturday, but the controversial publication is making a comeback as many retailers are heading in the other direction. With retailers forced to take a hard look at their bottom lines during the recession, catalogs are adjusting, but not disappearing, says Leslie Linevsky, […]
Magazines on the iPad? HP's MagCloud Makes it a One-Click Deal
Magazines on the iPad? HP’s MagCloud Makes it a One-Click Deal. Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick Gorgeous, image-rich magazines with long-form content, published periodically. Sometimes it feels like that’s what the iPad was made for. On its second birthday from inside HP Labs, the do-it-yourself magazine publishing service MagCloud is launching a new feature that lets any magazine […]
Saving sheets: Examining OK sheets practices
I would like to examine two practices: saving color OK sheets and pull sheets, or pull signatures. Over the years, economics, time and space have changed many pressroom practices — some for the good and some for the worse. Let’s look at color OK sheets (this also applies to sigs). The usual practice is to […]
The Case for Turning Around Print Media Companies
Image via Wikipedia The media and publishing industry — and print publishing in particular — doesn’t have to show up to its own funeral. There’s still opportunity to enable profitable, desirable businesses. We’re not suggesting that a recent uptick in advertising sales is a sign that publishers can go back to the old days of […]
Last chance to register for FIPP’s Digital Publishing Course
Last chance to register for FIPP’s Digital Publishing Course Time is running out to secure your place at FIPP’s Digital Publishing course, taking place in Sydney, Australia on 9-13 August. After two successful programmes in the UK and Germany, The Mequoda Group will again run the week-long programme, which will bring media executives up-to-speed with […]
Choosing a Web to Print Vendor
After working for web to print vendors for the last 15+ years, needless to say it’s interesting to look at the industry from a different perspective. Now that I have an independent perspective (not filtering everything through the role of selling a single technology), I would like to share some insights on how printer’s could […]
Unleash Your Inner Guerrilla Marketer – Social Media Success Tips
Social media is the ultimate energy vs. money marketing tool–put it to work for your business. Jay Conrad Levinson coined the term “guerrilla marketing” in the 1980s, defining it as an approach for “achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.” With four words–energy instead of […]
Océ Phantom Code pushes publishing to new horizons
This invisible ink technology provides added value to printed publications where information required to track and trace items with orders is greatly enhanced and where information cannot normally be viewed on a book cover
