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In March 2024, during a special ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Emirates Publishing Association (EPA), Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, the EPA's founder and honorary president, [...]

Greetings, Friends and Benefactors: Each year I am humbled as I review this list of loyal readers and benefactors who give generously to America's media ministry. This list includes donors [...]

Literati, the Austin, Tex.-based book box subscription service, pulled in $40 million in a series B round of financing earlier this month. This follows a previous round that raised $1 [...]

ABSTRACT A vast majority of insurers are regulated by each state in which they conduct business; however, a small subset of specialized firms, risk retention groups (RRGs), are largely exempt [...]

New Jersey hedge fund Chatham Asset Management won a bankruptcy auction for Sacramento-based McClatchy, publisher of the Miami Herald and Nuevo Herald. Chatham, McClatchy's largest debtor, bid $312 million for [...]

Indies have spoken of their 'huge relief' after receiving grants from Arts Council England's 160m [pounds sterling] emergency coronavirus pot this week. 'Without this funding, it isn't clear how we [...]

The impact of three-for-two and two-force 10 [pounds sterling] summer reading promotions is clear in this week's Bookseller 40. Paperback novels and non-fiction take the bulk of the places and, […]

Where to begin? Low stock prices, bad accounting, fraud, mismanagement --all against the backdrop of a poorly performing economy. 'It's as bad as it gets,' says Jessica Reif Cohen, Merrill [...]

This year has already seen some surprise successes in the paperback fiction market. Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders (Fourth Estate) has reached number 15 in the BookTrack 40, having already […]

Sales are down more than 15% in revenue compared to last year and down more than 11% in volume. However, Easter week was later last year; sales in the Easter [...]

Terry Pratchett continues his dominance of the science fiction and fantasy market, as the 52-week charts on page 22 illustrate. His latest hardback Thief of Time (Doubleday) was the bestselling [...]

BookTrack's Total Consumer Market (TCM) expands this week. It is not as great an expansion as took place last year, when the Total Consumer Market added about 25% of sales [...]

Food and drink sales are climbing to their annual peak, topping £1.8m in the General Retail Market (GRM), up from just over £1.2m last week. Sales in the sector are [...]

Byline: John Waggoner McGraw-Hill Financial is putting away the textbooks and focusing solely on financial data that advisers use in making investments and measuring their clients' progress. Pending shareholder approval, [...]

Given the big-ticket advances and some absent fiction brand names this chancy category will be in the spotlight this fall Do not ask Rob Weisbach to comment on the reported [...]

Between 1988 and 1994, organizational publications hit a fork in the road: Some went straight to extinction; survivors swerved right to lower costs, higher return on investment and a solid [...]

Public newspaper chains reported sharply higher earnings in 1st qtr 1994, according to a sampling of profit statements. The rise in earnings was attributed to an increase in advertising, especially classified ads. Revenues among a few papers, such as Central Newspapers Inc and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, increased at a double-digit rate. Gannett Company Inc, the largest chain in the US, reported a 19% increase to $78.7 million. Increases were common throughout the country, even at the Los Angeles Times, where the economy has not entirely recovered., Compiled by George Garneau RESURGENT ADVERTISING ACCELERATED the newspaper industry's rebound in the first three months of this year, as publicly-traded newspaper companies reported hefty gains in operating and net [...]

A big, growing market and no competition. Sounds like easy money, doesn't it? So why has newspaper publisher Southam Inc. dropped a bundle in Vancouver? BOOZE, SMOKES--AND DAILY newspapers: in [...]

Cut costs and boost revenue by taking a good look at your printing, mailing, and ad sales strategies. Associations all over the country are singing the bottom-line blues, and every [...]

Byline: Michael Sebastian ASK FORWARD-thinking publishers what they worry about most and you won't hear about declines in print. What you'll hear about is the unfettered growth in mobile. Last [...]

Most major newspaper companies' third-quarter 1992 profits were sharply higher. The positive results primarily reflect lower materials and payroll costs. Newsprint prices are at their lowest level in several years. Most newspaper companies' revenues grew only slightly, and advertising volume continued to decline at many papers. Summaries of 17 US newspaper publishers' third-quarter reports are given., SHARPLY HIGHER THIRD-QUARTER profits at most publicly traded newspaper companies resulted more from lower costs than from improving business conditions, analysts say. Newspaper revenue grew only modestly at most companies, [...]

The interesting article about Maxwell Online in the May issue of ONLINE magazine [1] has prompted me to write this article about Robert Maxwell the man, and the implications of [...]

BY RICHARD R. SZATHMARY, SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR The eithties were good for business publication and magazines in general. The nineties, however, have been a different story--although things may be picking […]

Publishers today are perplexed, anxious, disturbed. They have survived a decade of upheaval, corporate takeovers and mergers, a rapidly changing retail environment, growing debt burden--only to run into a thoroughly [...]

Hollinger Chmn Conrad Black owns 250 newspapers and would like to continue to acquire more companies. Black became an international figure in the industry with the acquisition of the Daily Telegraph in 1986.

Hot Shots Nineteen eighty-nine was one of the fattest, hottest years in the history of magazines, the culmination of a decade-long celebration that glistened with start-ups, acquisitions and dreams of [...]

Agents and Advances Late last fall the Twin Furies of Gloom appeared--matching articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that added together poor summer sales, dramatic [...]

For many years the French book industry was based on family businesses and remained immune to the pressures of the French stock exchange. But a series of mergers in the […]

I HAD TO ADMIT, THINGS WERE LOOKING GREAT FOR THE energy company. I flipped open their annual report, and read a catalogue of confident, upbeat news. Revenues in the last [...]

FOR A VARIETY of reasons, the third fiscal quarter, ended Sept. 30, 1995, was a difficult one for several publishers. Thomas Nelson, Times Mirror, Houghton Mifflin and Intervisual Book all [...]

EMI Music Publishing has struck a unique partnership with a UK entertainment management company to create their own production music library. The James Grant Group's music library will be launched [...]

Aluminum-plate and newsprint producers' costs could be pushed disproportionately higher if the Clinton administration's energy tax is enacted, because the aluminum and newsprint industries consume large amounts of electricity. These added costs could be passed along to newspapers. The tax would also raise newspapers' distribution and production costs., NEWSPRINT AND ALUMINUM, two of the three major pressroom consumables, for different reasons have contributed little to their manufacturers, bottom lines in recent years. Newspapers enjoyed deeply discounted prices for [...]

JF Media, the publisher of Football Punk and Golf Punk, has folded after being crippled by debts of more than pounds 1 million. A spokeswoman for the insolvency specialist White [...]

Byline: LIBN Staff Report The parent company of Dan's Papers, the iconic East End newspaper, has filed for bankruptcy. Brown Media Holdings Co. and Brown Publishing Co. filed Friday in [...]

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd reported profits of $384 million for the fiscal year ended Jun 30, 1992, compared to prior-year losses of $307 million. A strong performance by the company's UK arm, News International, was a primary reason for the turnaround. News International contributes 12-15% of the parent firm's annual turnover. News Corp's improved performance was surprising, because debt problems forced it to sell some assets., THE RECENT SHARPLY improved results from News Corp., Rupert Murdoch's international publishing empire, reflect particularly strong performances by its British operations. For the year ended June 30, after-tax profits were [...]

Bay State Banner, the black-interest Boston weekly that looked doomed when it suspended publication in early July, is coming back, its publisher announced Friday. 'The overwhelming support of regular Banner [...]

Wednesday's Bankruptcy Court heading in Tampa, Fla., was supposed to a critical day to determine the future ownership of bankrupt alternative weeklies publisher Creative Loafing. But according to an account [...]