tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110666572012-02-02T04:57:38.708-05:00Canadian MagazinesNews, views and reviews of the Canadian magazine industry.D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.comBlogger5566125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-69576931164127534832012-02-01T13:51:00.001-05:002012-02-01T13:52:04.123-05:002012-02-01T13:52:04.123-05:00Time Inc.'s Maghound single copy sales venture is closingAnnounced with considerable fanfare in 2008, Maghound, the Time Inc. venture to sell single copies of magazines at a discount, is to close. According to a story on Folio:, the division will be closing soon to focus the company on digital subscriptions (all 21 Time Inc. titles have now been digitized). Current users will be allowed a grace period and be advised to subscribe directly to their D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-56672182648665421962012-01-31T20:45:00.001-05:002012-01-31T20:45:33.854-05:002012-01-31T20:45:33.854-05:00Jim Pattison Group buys Comag newsstand distribution firm from Hearst and Condé NastTwo of the pillars of U.S. magazine publishing, Hearst and Condé Nast, have exited the magazine distribution business and sold their share(s) in Comag Marketing Group (CMG) to the Jim Pattison Group (JPG)of Vancouver. It should have a major impact on the single copy sales and marketing business.
JPG is a privately owned BC-based conglomerate which owns the News Group, North America's largest D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-30879580383791555622012-01-31T12:31:00.001-05:002012-01-31T12:31:50.841-05:002012-01-31T12:31:50.841-05:00Western and U of T settle with Access Copyright on annual fee covering print and digital copyrightTwo of Canada's A-list universities -- Western and University of Toronto -- have settled with Access Copyright on a licensing agreement to reproduce copyright-protected material in both digital and print format. The deal is that each will pay Access Copyright $27.50 per full-time student annually to cover reproduction of copyright material for student use. The fee is less than Access is seeking D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-30790439162084820682012-01-31T11:47:00.001-05:002012-01-31T11:47:36.168-05:002012-01-31T11:47:36.168-05:00Online shopping site Dealuxe scoops Fashion's fashion director Susie SheffmanWe imagine that the brass at St. Joseph Media are reeling as it has been reported Susie Sheffman, fashion director at Fashion magazine is leaving to be fashion director at Dealuxe, an online shopping site; only a couple of weeks ago, Sheffman's second-in-command and Fashion's market editor, Jordan Porter, also left to join Dealuxe . Dealuxe has the distinction of being a Canadian shopping site (D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-16396094505867952862012-01-30T16:35:00.000-05:002012-01-30T16:35:51.247-05:002012-01-30T16:35:51.247-05:00Designer dress giveaways every issue to celebrate Fashion magazine's 35thFashion magazine is celebrating its 35th anniversary issue by giving away a designer outfit each issue; with its March issue (shown below), it's a dress by Kimberley Newport-Mimran (who, among other things, designed the flight attendants' uniforms for Toronto's Porter Airlines and operates her own designer label Pink Tartan.) Mimram, who's married to entrepreneur retailer Joe "Joe Fresh" Mimram, D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-20904534924436945312012-01-30T15:43:00.001-05:002012-01-30T15:43:56.102-05:002012-01-30T15:43:56.102-05:00Cineplex mag to expand newspaper distribution in Montreal Gazette and Vancouver SunCineplex magazine, published by Cineplex Entertainment, will now be distributed in two Postmedia newspapers the Montreal Gazette and Vancouver Sun in addition to its insertion in the Globe and Mail. The magazine has a total circulation of 700,000, of which half will now be delivered with daily newspapers, effective with the February issue; 89,704 copies per month in the Gazette and 107,990 D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-62679910554415123672012-01-28T08:48:00.002-05:002012-01-28T08:55:06.145-05:002012-01-28T08:55:06.145-05:00Former money manager moves from Bay Street to publisher's chair at Canadian MoneySaver
Peter Hodson and new challenge
A former Bay Street money manager has purchased Canadian MoneySaver magazine and will publish it out of an office in Kitchener. According to a story in the Waterloo Region Record, Peter Hodson, 48, left his job as chair of Sprott Asset Management, a leading investment firm, and bought the magazine because he wasn't having much fun. “I didn’t really enjoy it that D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-50790216233699713342012-01-28T08:00:00.001-05:002012-01-28T08:01:09.349-05:002012-01-28T08:01:09.349-05:00As magazines find other means, decline in subs mailing hurts Canada Post volumesAn analysis by MastheadOnline of ABC circulation figures shows that the volume of mailed subscriptions has declined 18% over five years (June 2006 - June 2011). The impact for Canada Post is obvious, but it is also a bellwether for the magazine industry , as alternative means of distribution -- more single copy sales, more bulk distribution and more piggybacking with newspapers -- have increased D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-68151102668378478612012-01-27T15:56:00.001-05:002012-01-27T15:56:32.883-05:002012-01-27T15:56:32.883-05:00Magazine world view: QR codes up; print ads down; wary readers; online social TV guideMobile Action Codes Increased 439 Percent in Top 100 Mags Last Year (Audience Development)
US Online Ad Spending to Top Print by $5.7 Billion in 2012 (Audience Development)
Dear Print, We Print Buyers Now Want an Open Marriage (Dead Tree Edition)
Almost 70% of British public distrust red-top tabloids (Guardian)
Website Scout London to launch weekly print mag (Press Gazette)
American D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-21363396008658768152012-01-26T17:12:00.000-05:002012-01-26T17:12:25.670-05:002012-01-26T17:12:25.670-05:00Early bird deadline for KRW business press awards entry loomsThe window is closing for the early-bird rate to enter the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Awards for the best in business press from the year 2011. Submissions are now being accepted in 22 categories for gold and silver Awards, to be presented at the 58th annual KRW Awards on June 7, 2012 at the Carlu in Toronto.The deadline for all submissions is February 3, 2012, but submissions by January 27 at 5pm D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-82586297507689336632012-01-26T16:46:00.001-05:002012-01-26T16:47:05.521-05:002012-01-26T16:47:05.521-05:00New multiplatform media team named at TC MediaJocelyne Morissette, who has been in charge of website development and management of flagship media and magazine-related brands such as Coupdepouce.com, ElleQuébec.com and Recettes.qc.ca and in the management of women's portals, has been named to the new position of general manager, multiplatform media development at TC Media (formerly Transcontinental Media). At the same time, Pierre Tremblay D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-44366835137614319952012-01-25T11:22:00.001-05:002012-01-25T23:43:34.766-05:002012-01-25T23:43:34.766-05:00Michael Fox, acknowleged industry postal expert, retiring from Rogers PublishingThe Canadian magazine industry has long relied on Michael Fox as its primary expert when it came to understanding the vagaries and the economics of Canada Post. Fox, who has long worked in circulation at Rogers Publishing and, before that, at Maclean Hunter, and is now senior vice-president, circulation, is retiring at the end of this month. He first joined Maclean Hunter in 1974 as an editor D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-49100680589084333122012-01-24T12:46:00.000-05:002012-01-24T12:46:02.435-05:002012-01-24T12:46:02.435-05:00Meredith Corporation doubles online reach by buying Reader's Digest's Allrecipes.comAs part of a spree of acquisition, particularly in the food and recipe area, Meredith Corporation has confirmed that it is buying Allrecipes.com from Reader's Digest Association (RDA). The resulting $175 million transaction means that the 13-year-old site, which reaches 100 million Americans and has sister sites in 22 countries, will double the Meredith Women's Network (Better Homes and Gardens, D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-62294871449188509352012-01-22T23:50:00.000-05:002012-01-22T23:50:31.690-05:002012-01-22T23:50:31.690-05:00Quote, unquote: On the virtue of diligence in magazine publishing“There’s nothing wrong with the magazine form that constant diligence won’t fix."-- Esquire magazine editor in chief David Granger, quoted in a New York Times story by its media columnist David Carr, about how the magazine survived the recession and in 2011 was up 13.5% in ad pages.D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-16309482737663519652012-01-19T15:22:00.002-05:002012-01-19T23:45:55.613-05:002012-01-19T23:45:55.613-05:00Mitch Dent, who brought Today's Parent into Rogers, now responsible for all Rogers TV salesMitch Dent, who was instrumental bringing the Today's Parent Group into the fold at Rogers Publishing in 1999 is now to head up the entire Rogers television sales force. Previously, as executive vice-president of sales, Rogers TV, he was responsible for Citytv and OMNI television; now he has added responsibility for Sportsnet and Specialty Television sales.
Dent has been with Rogers Media for 13D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-76850363979834703972012-01-19T14:26:00.001-05:002012-01-21T01:48:39.987-05:002012-01-21T01:48:39.987-05:00Reuters digital tries out a print magazineReuters considers getting into the magazine business after its success with a one-off for next week's World Economic Forum in Davos. They produced 11,000 copies of a hurry-up, 64-page test issue -- 5,000 for Davos, 6,000 for clients and others, according to a story on Poynter.org.
“I would be very surprised if there wasn’t a print product in our future,” said Jim Impoco, executive editor of D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-91952218483872192002012-01-19T12:18:00.007-05:002012-01-21T01:49:47.346-05:002012-01-21T01:49:47.346-05:00King's College in Halifax considering masters program in creative non-fictionThe King's School of Journalism in Halifax is surveying the market to see what appetite there is for a Master's in Creative Nonfiction program beginning in the summer of 2013. (It seems to be pitched at books, but could also be interesting to magazine writers interested in long-form journalism.)According to a posting on the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers listserv by Stephen Kimber, D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-2708816045919969102012-01-18T17:16:00.000-05:002012-01-18T17:16:01.102-05:002012-01-18T17:16:01.102-05:00Magazine world view: Paper problems; SOPA and mags; Playboy moves; Self-pubs stay that wayUnder Siege: The outlook for print media is even worse than we thought, expert says -- but publishers may prosper (Dead Tree Edition)
SOPA and Magazine Media (Folio:)
Playboy to close Chicago headquarters(Folio:)
Magazine publisher turns job-hunting into a TV contest (Guardian)
Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism (Guardian)
Future sells New York music division D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-87698097527347648152012-01-18T16:36:00.000-05:002012-01-18T16:36:47.031-05:002012-01-18T16:36:47.031-05:00Quote, unquote: Coverage on approval“We’re respectful when it comes to our celebrity coverage....We want to take our readers inside the lives of celebrities and you have to be respectful if you want to do that.” -- Rogers Publishing spokesperson Suneel Khanna, quoted on behalf of Hello! Canada in the Toronto Star. He was responding to a story from the Leveson inquiry in London (sparked by the phone hacking scandal) in which the D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-74426564251606221942012-01-18T12:32:00.003-05:002012-01-18T12:36:28.650-05:002012-01-18T12:36:28.650-05:00Three leaders to say how The Page is Changing at State of Mag Nation March 1
Chambers
Stoneham
Mullen
Three women leading in magazines' evolution beyond the printed page will be speaking at this year's State of the Magazine Nation event, The Page is Changing, presented by Magazines Canada.
"The event will focus on how magazine brands are extending great content beyond the printed page to multiple platforms, giving consumers what they want, when they want it and D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-70563358594689986632012-01-17T13:47:00.001-05:002012-01-17T13:49:47.396-05:002012-01-17T13:49:47.396-05:00Are magazine cover subjects becoming more racially diverse?It would be interesting to hear if readers are noting a trend among Canadian magazines to put more diverse faces on their covers. I'm asking because of an article in the Guardian's women's blog noting that, in Britain, a lot of attention is being paid because of cover choices being made by mainstream magazines. For instance, British-born Indian actress Archie Panjabi on Psychologies (above, left)D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-60293338345348674962012-01-16T14:12:00.000-05:002012-01-16T14:12:35.631-05:002012-01-16T14:12:35.631-05:00Chantal Hébert at Massey College January 25thChantal Hébert, the national affairs columnist for The Toronto Star will submit herself to a conversational Q & A with John Fraser, the Master of Massey College in Toronto on Wednesday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m. It's one of the occasional press club nights at Massey, with no RSVP and no fee required; just show up. There's coffee, tea and a cash bar afterwards. In addition to her Star column and D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-80161304687078896362012-01-16T13:06:00.004-05:002012-01-16T13:09:32.496-05:002012-01-16T13:09:32.496-05:00Buy a vowel, or a consonant, to support literacy in ABC campaignABC Life Literacy Canada has found a creative way to fundraise by selling the letters of the alphabet to corporate sponsors in its Letters for Literacy campaign. Now in its 3rd year, it is an opportunity for magazine/media companies to step up in promoting literacy.“With numerous non-profits and fundraisers trying to be heard, we wanted to be creative and step outside of the traditional box,” D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-74679549907912059302012-01-16T12:40:00.000-05:002012-01-16T12:40:57.326-05:002012-01-16T12:40:57.326-05:00The Magazine for teens and pre-teens has been sold to Kairos TransmediaThe Magazine, a magazine and custom publisher focussed on the teen and pre-teen audience, has been purchased by Kairos Transmedia. No price or terms were revealed in a release.Established in 2000, The Magazine publishes 8 regular issues a year. "We are very excited with this acquisition," said Becky Brown, The Magazine's newly appointed executive vice president. "We're looking forward to D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-64868699563089131892012-01-16T12:07:00.000-05:002012-01-16T12:07:59.861-05:002012-01-16T12:07:59.861-05:00Gary Campbell, web creative director for St. Joe's, leaving to pursue personal projectsGary Campbell, the executive producer of St. Joseph Media (Torontolife.com etc.) and a key individual in its digital publishing operation is leaving the company to pursue upspecified "personal projects". "I plan to spend the next few months pursuing personal projects that leverage my digital design talents as a maker of innovative things," Campbell says. "I also plan to continue developing my D. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.com0