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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 [...]

Time Purchase Market Fan/Fred Industry Period Share of Fan/Fred Purchases Production in Period 1Q 2006 36.23% $275 $759 FY 2005 36.25% $1,194 $3,294 FY 2004 43.73% $1,220 $2,790 FY 2003 [...]

CPI's offer for Fulmar, which valued the UK print group at pounds 33m, has been declared 'unconditional'. CPI has received valid acceptances for over 98% of Fulmar's shares, and expects [...]

Celebrity gossip magazine Hello! has almost broken the 1m unique user barrier for its UK Web site, and is using new research to create extra content channels and attract new […]

Rupert Murdoch is today's William Paley. He's tonic for our industry and we need more people like him. Before you have a conniption and shout, 'I beg your pardon, but [...]

Reeling from job cuts and sales declines, the newspaper industry faces an uncertain future - and PR pros must adjust their plans accordingly. Erica Iacono reports. To say the newspaper [...]

Byline: Jeff Bercovici, Sara James SWITCHING CHANNELS: Inside TV was a latecomer to the celebrity weekly craze, and it has struggled to find an audience since its introduction in April, [...]

(Direct Newsline)-The children's and outdoor categories have shown the largest growth in mail volume over the past four years, according to Millard Group's annual seasonality study of consumer publishing trends. [...]

WH Smith is to give more shelf space to market-leading titles at the expense of lower circulation rivals as it puts magazine sales at the heart of its turnaround strategy. […]

On a steamy early August day in central Florida, The Villages -- a mammoth development of gated communities for 'active adults' 55 and older -- hardly looks like a battleground. [...]

Media group Chrysalis is cutting jobs in an attempt to improve profitability at its struggling books division. The company launched a 30-day consultation period last week after a two month [...]

The latest volume in the Harry Potter series is set to break all publishing records, to the delight of booksellers. The success of the Potter books has also made its [...]

Last week, Nielsen Media Research executives came across a case study posted to the website of Washington, DC, public affairs firm Glover Park Group (GPG). In that study, GPG took [...]

A new blend at Starbucks Starbucks will soon revamp its lunch offerings at shops around town. For starters, on April 18, hundreds of stores will add a gourmet cheese plate [...]

Paper directories are not glamorous and with search engines all the rage, it would be understandable if they were fading away. But by playing on their 'local' heritage, and by […]

Customer magazines are emerging from the shadows and seriously challenging glossy newsstand titles By Julia Hutchinson, director of APA Printers have had a tough old time of it in the [...]

Utilities and telecoms companies are among the leading publishers of customer magazines, according to recent research. Energy and water companies accounted for 3 per cent of the customer publishing industry's [...]

Since 1999 Waterstone's has dominated the UK book market. In 2003 it had 18% of market share with sales of #406.2m. That growth is tipped to go on, helping the [...]

Those who have not been afraid to take risks have been rewarded in terms of increased circulation in the first half of the year By Alison Carter The latest ABC [...]

Highbury House Communications, the publisher of men's titles Front and Fast Car, and XBM and Cube for readers who are keen on computer games consoles, claims to be faring better [...]

BY MARK FITZGERALD Over the last year, as the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures show, the circulation of The Bakersfield Californian dropped like a rock. Never a very [...]

Daily newspapers have built impressive Internet operations that dominate the advertising market online, according to a recent report. Daily newspapers captured $655 million in online advertising revenue in 2002, about [...]

Byline: Seth Mnookin Ed Needham, Rolling Stone's newly installed managing editor, seems nervous. He's sitting in his office, meeting with the magazine's music editors to discuss the week's lineup. Needham's [...]

Phone: 212-541-0500 URL: www.economist.com Circulation: 386,000 (North America) Ad revenue: $61.3 million Ad rate: $26,900 1-page 4/C Having avoided death by a thousand cuts, Xerox Corp. is hoping to rebound [...]

This week, Patricia Cornwell repeats what she has done with most of her bestsellers-her newest lands in the top slot on the fiction hardcover charts after less than a week [...]

This is the second time Clive Cussler has hit the #1 spot on the hardcover charts after just one week in the stores; Valhalla Rising is the 16th in his [...]

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Hardcover Bestsellers LAST WEEKS Fiction WEEK ON LIST 1 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. 1 4 James Patterson. Little Brown, $22.95 ISBN 0-316-96944-3 2 Hemlock Bay. - 1 Catherine [...]

Hardcover Bestsellers Fiction LAST WEEKS WEEK ON LIST 1 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. - 1 James Patterson. Little, Brown, $22.95 ISBN 0-316-96944-3 2 The Fourth Hand. John Irving. 1 3 [...]

Bluesnake, the e-tail division of John Brown Publishing, claims it has so far received just under four million page views since its launch in April last year. During this time [...]

Recent developments have squeezed traditional publishers Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately. In the face of rising competition from various e-book options, many have adapted to electronic […]

The Scandinavian newspaper market is one of the world's strongest, but it faces an uncertain future. Tim Woolgar reports Scandinavians are avid newspaper readers, generally consuming more newspapers per head [...]

BBC Worldwide has asked us to point out that it remains the UK's third largest consumer magazine publisher with sales of 4,295,978 (ABC July to December 1999), countrary to a [...]

A handful of publishers and authors dominate the charts... and then there's Oprah Perhaps it will be different in the next millennium, but the single word that best defined the [...]

A RECENT SURVEY of the French book business reveals that two groups hold 38% of that country's book market (Havas with 21%, Hachette with 17%), and both are appendages of [...]