Author: Publishing Management Associates
How do you solve a problem like USPS?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
The United States Postal Service (USPS), which lost $20 billion dollars during the last two fiscal years, wants to do what all government entities do when facing revenue and business volume loses…raise rates. Called an “exigent rate increase,” the USPS is expected to ask for steep increases that will impose new economic hardship on magazines […]
Short Order Publishing
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
Newsstand operations have been notorious for their inefficiencies and waste. Now there’s an innovation that could change the business. But is it too late? Meganews Magazines has introduced a kiosk that prints magazines on demand. In a space smaller than a traditional newsstand, the kiosk uses touchscreens to retrieve the digital files of more than […]
Online subscription pricing on the rise
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
Business Media reports that publishers are taking a tougher position on pricing their online content (http://www.btobonline.com/article/20130802/MEDIABUSINESS10/308029996/online-publishers-raising-subscription-prices-tightening-free-access?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editorial&utm_campaign=daily#). Not only has the average price paid for an online subscription gone up over the past three years, publishers have reduced the number of free pages visitors can view on publications using the metered subscription model. The broadcast model of […]
Are iPads dead?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
It may seem a little crazy, or at least greatly premature, to pronounce the demise of iPads that have only been in existence a few years. Yet the tech blogosphere is carry pieces that do just that. For example, “Is the iPad Era Already Drawing to a Close?” cites a sobering statistic that makes you […]
Magazine subscriptions: Is print dead?
September 17, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
“The sensibility that print is cratering is just nuts.” So said Charles Townsend, CEO of Condé Nast last year at the Paley Center for Media (Audience Development magazine). This may seem like backward thinking to some who have placed their bets on the future dominance of digital publications, but the opinion of the head of […]
Fundraising: The Donor Retention Blues
September 16, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
If you are having trouble getting your donors to repeat their giving year after year, you are not alone. A new 2012 Fundraising effectiveness Survey Report from the Association of Fundraising Professionals show that for the year 2011, “every $100 gained in 2011 was offset by $100 in losses through gift attrition.” Furthermore, for every […]
Fundraising: Online giving on the rise
September 16, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
It should be no surprise that online giving grew 10.7% last year. It is a convenient and, now, trusted way to support a favorite charity. While online’s slice of the fundraising pie is getting larger, it accounted for only 7% of total giving in 2012. The rest came from traditional channels, such as direct mail, […]
Jesus on trial – again
September 15, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
How would a contemporary lawyer approach the most famous trial in history? Find out in Wesley J. Smith’s fascinating piece, “A Contemporary Review of the Trial of Jesus,” on First Things’ website at (http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/08/a-contemporary-review-of-the-trial-of-jesus). For a Jewish lawyer’s perspective, read The Trial of Jesus by J. H. H. Weiler.
It’s a free country, right?
September 15, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
Not if you’re attending an American college or university. The Intercollegiate Review reports that not only is student free speech and association threatened by schools’ PC group think, the federal government is now proposing a national speech code that will stamp out free speech as we know on campuses across the country. Learn more about this frightening […]
North America’s largest collection of classic boats
September 15, 2013 BY Publishing Management Associates
There are few locations in North America as beautiful as the Thousand Islands. The wealthy barons of the Gilded Age certainly thought so and spent summers there in their large homes, cruising to and fro on their wooden steam yachts. It was an era that will never return but some of its great ships (as […]