Google Authorship is Google's new way of helping their algorithm figure out who is most credible on the web. Naturally, you need to have a Google+ profile in order to
The “World’s Largest Circulation Biblical Archaeology Magazine,” as Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) bills itself, lives in a small niche, parented by a nonprofit organization. It’s dedicated to studying the oldest
January 31, 2014 - BOSTON — Subscription website publishing is one of the hottest entrepreneurial ventures on the Internet, both for novices and for legacy publishers struggling to make the
TheLadders.com, Match.com and SSWUG.org utilize membership subscription websites to properly serve their audiences
The membership subscription website archetype is a very complicated model. It may be structured as a pure-play site,
Recruitment Advisor has posted a fun article about the audience development campaign that's underway for the newspaper at the San Quentin correctional facility.
The Reynold Journalism Institute publishes a weekly update on innovations in journalism technology called FutureLab. Last week's update featured a few innovations for digital magazine publishing.
The price of must-read news about New York State and the city will cost you $5,990 per year. Lucia Moses from Ad Week writes, "Capital next month will start asking
Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google, published a post on his personal blog that pretty much says if you're using guest blogging for SEO purposes, you're a black
Glamour is pulling out the celebrities to boost its audience. Ad Week has a new report about Glamour's new celebrity editors, Emma Bazilian writes, "Glamour is reaching outside the traditional
Romanian-based PHOTOgraphia is taking digital magazine publishing to the next level, not because they want to, but because they need to. Talking New Media's D.B. Hebbard writes, "It turns out
January 10, 2014 - BOSTON — Following the recent release of his new Multiplatform Publishing Strategy handbook, Don Nicholas, a leading magazine industry consultant and CEO of Mequoda Group, has
The New York Times relaunched its website yesterday, while also unveiling its sponsored posts. DigiDay's Brian Morrissey writes, "The New York Times said it would take every care to label
There’s no better example of how critical a subscription website can be to a legacy publisher than the story of Psychotherapy Networker.
This 30-year-old magazine was launched by a group
Yahoo made some big announcements at CES that you might be interested in. David Pouge debuted the new digital magazine Yahoo Tech. Variety's Marc Graser writes, "His new digital magazine
Twitter recently debuted a new feature called Nearby. It lets users see what people have tweeted in their local vicinity. This functionality opens up the possibility for businesses to promote
Some folks like to talk about the decline of magazines. And yet, the Google search question “how to start a magazine company” is asked 1,680 times a year (and 1.1
Stipla is a new interactive iPad magazine that tells the stories of people from around the world. Cool Hunting's Nara Shin writes, "Stipla combines writing with panoramic photographs.
Time Inc.'s split from parent company Time Warner isn't the only big move the company is making. They are also tearing down the wall between editorial and the business side
Subscription websites are at the core of modern online publishing and have even been considered the Holy Grail of the industry.
The popularity surrounding subscription websites stems from the fact that
According to Antoin Boulin at Folio, 80% of online content today is user-generated. BuzzFeed, Gawker and Forbes are noted as three top publishers of user-generated content (UGC). While BuzzFeed is
Rap Genius is a popular music lyric database site that has grown quite popular in the last year. However, Rap Genius did something incredibly bad for its SEO earlier in
We often hear about predictions for digital magazines; how they will grow, the revenue generation expected throughout the industry and the time frames associated with these numbers. These predictions are
There is a new app in Apple Newsstand that hopes to pay up $10,000 for a single article while remaining just $.99 a month. It's called Offline. It was created
This year we published more than two-hundred new articles about multiplatform publishing, digital magazines, audience development and subscription websites.
Out of those 200 articles, there were ten multiplatform publishing articles that
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has just launched a new online multimedia magazine. Lewis Lazare for the Chicago Business Journal writes, "It is believed to be the first dedicated music
The digital landscape gives publishers the opportunity to provide a variety of content on different devices. This versatility is expanding the idea of what a digital magazine can be.
Panna, for
Search is the most fundamental element of content marketing. If you thought social media was the silver bullet, you were wrong. It's at least a bronze bullet, but social media
Don Nicholas, who has spent 30 years as a publisher and consultant in the magazine publishing industry, has released a free 100-page handbook titled Multiplatform Publishing Strategy as a followup
On November 8, The Onion announced that it would stop publishing in print and only focus on its digital channels. On Thursday, December 12, the final print edition of The
Meredith’s print magazine Allrecipes is only a month old but expansion is already in the game plan. Bill Mickey writes, “After just one month in print, Allrecipes, the print extension
From augmented reality to trends in nontraditional gift-giving, Bayou City magazine’s subscription website publishing adventures epitomize the 21st century.
Bayoucitynetwork.com launched in early November, exactly one year after it was born
It’s been interesting to see the successes associated with subscription websites. From digital newspapers to digital magazines, more and more publishers are considering paywall strategies. This even includes tabloids.
Robert Cookson
Facebook and Twitter aren’t the only social networks relevant in the news world; Pinterest is now an important social network in the news world. Kurt Wagner writes, “A new study
When we first heard about Google’s new Play Newsstand for Android devices … we were underwhelmed.
“Ah,” we thought, “Google is about to prove once again that they may understand search,
The New York Times has a fun article on the ever expanding duties of publishing assistants. Yes, most of them still have their daily coffee runs but they're also being
Paywalls have been big for publishers by bringing in subscription website money. The Daily Dish is going at paywalls in another way; by accepting tweets or bitcoins in exchange for
Many big box retailers were open on Thanksgiving, giving the post-holiday shoppers somewhere to go before the mayhem of Black Friday.
Some publishers got involved in the sales too, offering digital
"We can't afford to pay for content if it's going to be a one-time use," stated Jay Annis, VP of The Taunton Press speaking at the Act 4 Publishing Event
At last.
We’ve noted here that it seemed simply astounding that a publisher with the vast resources of Time Inc. was putting out a blurry product. TIME magazine – granddaddy of
Digital newsstands just got an upgrade. Google has decided to combine their Google Currents mobile news application and their Play Magazine app into something called Google Play Newsstand, which competes
Joanna Coles, editor of Cosmo, recently wrote an article for AdWeek that shares her opinions on digital publishing and printed content.
“Digital disruption has been fantastic for the publishing industry. It’s
Every publisher has their own audience development strategies. In a Mequoda System, our three goals are to attract, retain and then monetize, which is done primarily through email. There are,
Ad Week is reporting that Forbes Media is entertaining offers to sell the company. Lucia Moses writes, "CEO Mike Perlis announced the news in a memo to employees today saying
On October 14th, a print newsletter publisher blossomed into a multi-platform publisher. That was the day we helped launch one of our newest Mequoda Systems, NutritionAction.com, the home of
America's Test Kitchen (ATK) is now offering access to all three of its subscription websites for 69.99/year. Gigaom reports, "ATK is offering bundled access to all three of its websites,
