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It is the best of times and the worst of times for podcasting. In 2023, the industry put the brakes on a period of lavish spending and nine-digit megadeals and--much [...]

Hearst proceeded cautiously with summer's pilot of The Pioneer Woman Magazine, printing just 150,000 copies, sold primarily at Walmart. The fall issue expanded to 20 retailers; next year the magazine [...]

The Covid crisis has accelerated changes in our industry, most significantly in the escalation of e-book and audio sales, while there has been an 11% downturn in traditional print sales. [...]

The Hispanic Business Magazine celebrates its 25th successful anniversary with reference to the emergence of Hispanic middle class in various fields. The U.S. Hispanic business increased 39.1 percent between 1992 and 1997.

The impact of three-for-two and two-force 10 [pounds sterling] summer reading promotions is clear in this week's Bookseller 40. Paperback novels and non-fiction take the bulk of the places and, […]

How the independent publishers created a world--and market--of their own That year, Richard Nixon was in the White House, Bobby Fischer won the world chess title, and Herman Wouk had [...]

A look at some recent statistics provides powerful evidence of the travel industry's vitality. The World Tourism Organization reported last year that international tourism rose by 7.2% in 1995, making [...]

Unit sales of print books were flat in the week ended Mar. 9, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. A 6.5% [...]

Unit sales of print books fell 6.4% in the week ended Feb. 23, 2019, compared to the similar week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The decline [...]

In 2017, Z2 Comics, a small indie graphic novel house based in New York City, published Murder Ballads by Gabe Soriaand Paul Reinwand, a graphic novel about a down-and-out music [...]

Declines in adult fiction and juvenile fiction and nonfiction offset a 7.6% increase in adult nonfiction sales, resulting in a 0.8% drop in unit sales of print books for the [...]

The Small Publishers chart is compiled using only titles issued by publishers that had sales of less than 5m [pounds sterling] in the previous calendar year through Nielsen's TCM. Unlike [...]

Unit sales of print books fell 2% in the week ended June 3, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017, at outlets that report to NDP BookScan. For the [...]

'You smile a lot. You must have heard a lot of BS about Kobalt.' Willard Ahdritz has built his independent publishing empire by boldly questioning this industry and seeking out [...]

In the face of increased competition, guidebook publishers are adding new series and redesigning existing lines Publishers have long battled to claim larger chunks of the travel turf, but today's [...]

Like many a literature buff before him, Julian Ross decided he would like to get into the publishing business. So in the mid-1980s, Ross, who lives in the small West [...]

Since the birth of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, book clubs have flourished as part of the publishing landscape. According to a recent study by the NPD Group, book club [...]

The streets of Los Angeles would run red with blood if its magazine casualties were made of flesh instead of pulp. But now a contender that looks like it has [...]

Will its move into consumer titles threaten publishers? Tesco's clout in the UK retail economy has been well documented Statistics have indicated that as much as pounds 1 in every [...]

Byline: Number 17, NYC and Nayeli E. Rodriguez We're still in round one, but both formats have advantages. Many readers love the way a hardcover book feels in their hands--and [...]

Byline: Chad Halcom Valassis Communications Inc. V. News America Inc. et al Beyond the jaw-dropping sums of money, the competitive practices dispute between Livonia-based Valassis Communications Inc. and New York-based [...]

A row has broken out between the rival publishers Conde Nast and The National Magazine Company over the practice of bundling, or selling two or more magazines in a pack, [...]

It's fair to say there were no gasps of astonishment when Sony/ATV was named Best Publisher for singles and albums at last month's Music Week Awards. This was no Belle [...]

By Nick Bajzek, Products Editor Metal roofs most popular in the Southeast, a recent report shows Recent surveys show metal roofing continues to gain market share in residential remodeling. The [...]

Growth at The Huffington Post has slowed in March, according to new numbers from Nielsen Online, which tracks the top 30 global news/current events sites. Huff Post's monthly uniques advanced [...]

Skymag, the UK's biggest magazine by circulation, has suffered a 3.3% fall, period on period. The title, which is distributed free to Sky TV customers every month, has a circulation [...]

Retail consumer magazine titles have strengthened their position, as customers seek more value from brands. Tesco Magazine and Asda Magazine both posted circulation increases, of 3.4% and 0.6% period on [...]

Men's Health has overtaken Nuts to become the second-biggest paid-for men's magazine. The NatMag Rodale title posted a circulation of 250,094, a 2% increase period on period, and a 4.1% [...]

British Airways' High Life magazine has recorded a 13.8% period-on-period rise in circulation in the past six months, taking it to 214,634. High Life, which is produced by Cedar Publishing, [...]

Sales of comics are predicted to grow by more than a fifth, to #165m, by 2013 according research group Mintel. The sector, worth around #136m in 2007, has grown by [...]

The Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel, citing a loss of 'hundreds of thousands of dollars a year' announced plans to charge for its TV Week supplement beginning in April. In a [...]

The recently launched print-on-demand partnership between Lulu.com and Universal Press Syndicate has resulted in several more books by Universal creators. They include 'A Boatload of Louie' by 'Overboard' cartoonist Chip [...]

The Lancaster (Pa.) New Era was doing something right long before the past year. It won state awards, and was the rare afternoon daily with almost as much circulation as [...]

Lancaster, Ohio, pop. 35,335, won't ever be confused with Manhattan. Columbus is the nearest big city, about 35 minutes away. Go north, says Lancaster Eagle-Gazette Publisher Rick Szabrak, and you're [...]

Customer-publishing launches last year were up 16% on 2005, according to the Association of Publishing Agencies. The APA also revealed a trend for online brands extending into hard-copy titles, such [...]

NEW YORK -- The Audit Bureau of Circulations' FAS-FAX report for the six-month period ending September 2006 confirmed yet again that major metros are struggling to show growth. The losses [...]

Six new memoirs have jumped on to the bestseller list THREE memoirs in Amazon's top ten have been there for over a year, steadily selling thousands each week. So publishers [...]