Magazines Industry News & Events

How Could the Aluminum Tariff Impact Publishing Operations?

The aluminum tariff that went into place in June is impacting printing plate manufacturers and the printers who rely on them for these products. With limited U.S. resources, these manufacturers have no choice but to source high-grade aluminum from foreign suppliers and pay the taxes.

How the State of the Trucking Industry Could Impact Publishers

The U.S. trucking industry is facing a crisis: not enough truck drivers to keep up with demand. This shortage is causing a ripple effect for professionals across every industry who depend on...

The Art of the Enduring Magazine

As a marketer working for a magazine printing company with a venerable lineage that tracks back to 1793, I love a good magazine success story. Especially in this disruptive age of multitudinous...

Getting Jazzed About Print Magazine Possibilities

I am reading so many positive pieces about print. The death knell that has rung loud and long for print publications over the last decade or two is fading. That dirge may well be done, and good...

Ad Fraud: Are You Getting the Wrong Impression?

Fake content is getting some attention thanks to Facebook and Google. But another problem digital publishers need to deal with is a big one: advertising fraud. Ad fraud is pervasive in the...

Niche Digital Rocked Entrepreneurship and Other Important Themes

Although I’ve attended and enjoyed the Niche Media Conference in the past, I was a first-timer to the Niche Digital conference in Denver this past September. I recognized some similarities...

Attention, Association Publishers: My Top Ten Take-Aways from AM&P 2016

This year’s Association Media & Publishing annual meeting was packed with great sessions! Salient pointers and quotes seemed to jump off the pages of my copious notes. Here are a few of my...

This Year, Niche Media will be Weird…

How do I know? Niche Media’s 10th annual conference will be held in Austin, TX, on April 4th through the 6th. Those in the know about Austin, know that it has a distinct “weirdness factor” to it,...

Are you Master of Your Social Media?

Social media is a fantastic way to interact with your existing readership and tap into an undeveloped audience. There are millions of potential subscribers, readers, and advertisers that can be...

Sheridan – a Niche Original, or a Company for the Birds?

I read an intriguing article the other day featured in BoSack’s e-newsletter, “Heard on the Web”, titled “When Niche is Nicer: The True Winners in the Magazine Wars”. Clare Kermond wrote about the...