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The Financial Times is scaling back its weekly Creative Business media supplement to a monthly frequency due to lack of advertiser support. Two media news pages will now appear within [...]

POTOMAC, Md., April 7, 2003--Responding to the growing need in the telecom industry for improved guidance on regulatory and policy issues, PBI Media today launches Telecom Policy Report. This weekly […]

Linda Bennett, former business development manager at Waterstone's, has launched a new company offering business analysis services to the book trade. Gold Leaf will provide booksellers, publishers, libraries and media [...]

Ebrary.com, an electronic library of sorts that has been under development since 1999 and is expected to launch very soon, holds significant promise for academic presses that typically struggle to [...]

eService Provider is the new magazine for web and application hosting executives. Published monthly starting in early 2001, eService Provider will define, shape and accelerate the growth of the industry […]

NETLIBRARY, an e-book distributor and e-publishing services provider, announced an expanded agreement with reference book publisher ABC-CLIO to distribute its frontlist titles as e-books to academic public and special libraries. [...]

E-biography of next prez to appear instantly AS PART OF ITS DEBUT SELECTION OF ELECTRONIC BOOKS, SIMON & SCHUSTER announced plans to publish a new presidential e-biography aimed at children [...]

HAIGHTS CROSS Communications, the White Plains, N.Y.-based educational and professional publisher, has formed Skillspower.com, a new subsidiary designed to provide test prep materials on the Internet, CD-ROM and through in-service [...]

MARKETING ACROSS BORDERS REQUIRES SPECIALIZED SKILLS to meet the diverse challenges of language, culture, economics, regulation and distribution. Worldwide expansion of brands is essential to the continued growth of companies [...]

Bringing the electronic revolution to the legal publishing profession was never likely to be easy, but the results are very satisfying for Nick Capell, writes Paul Donovan The IT revolution […]

A sweeping, 23rd-floor view of Central Park fills one side of Tom Roger's office, and a gallery of family photos occupies the opposite wall. The chairman-CEO of Primedia, a multimedia [...]

Online banking I was dismayed by Caroline Gilmour's statement in her article Bank On It (PC Direct, February 2000) that 'First Direct ... got a handful of customers and a […]

Teresa Taras runs through the latest on ZDNet and highlights the latest goodies begging to be downloaded from AOL and CompuServe As the academic year draws to a close, the […]

Recession was just starting to bite when the Littles snapped up struggling book distributor and wholesaler Gardners of Bexhill in 1986. Interest rates had rocketed, consumer confidence was sliding, and [...]

Hodder is stepping up its online consumer engagement programme. Three new community hubs are planned while Hodder's first site, Hodderscape, will relaunch next month. Marketing director Jessica Killingley said the [...]

ATLANTA (FNS)--Home Depot is branching out, into a little publishing and a bit of cable TV. Arthur Blank, president and chief operating officer, told the $12.5 billion home improvement company's [...]

Travel publishers are seeking ways to reach beyond the traditional travel market, as AA Publishing called a halt to commissioning for new overseas travel guides following sustained pressure on the [...]

Ken Loach's new film, also out on 12th June, concerns a troubled postman who gets advice from his hero Eric Cantona, who features playing himself. Route Publishing has the tie-in [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- German media giant Axel Springer is playing the ultimate party pooper as it considers canceling all of its 2009 galas in response to the global economic crisis. [...]

Simon & Schuster is to relaunch its Vampirates children's series of books with a new graphic novel cover style. The fourth book in Justin Somper's series, Black Heart, will be [...]

US literary prize the Langum Charitable Trust has said it will refuse to consider titles from Random House US for its $1,000 awards until The Jewel of Medina is published. [...]

Angel Gate CEO Debbie Bishop brings together a lot of skills in the service of her company. A screenwriter, producer, novelist and graphic designer, Bishop launched Angel Gate in 2003; [...]

A new independent publisher specialising in the graphic arts and manga is hoping to take advantage of rising interest in the genres. Dorset-based Tabella Publishing has been created by Kevin [...]

To commemorate its last issue as a digest-sized magazine, TV Guide will publish nine different covers for the weekly's Oct. 9 issue. The images recreate the most memorable covers from [...]

Viz Media has plans for prose works, and several deals for video games and retailing, all based on its manga and anime properties. Viz will release prose novelizations of its [...]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAGAZINE of alternative culture in time when alternative culture has become a mainstream concept? It's a question we at This Magazine have been [...]

Arbitron and Mediaweek parent company VNU last week agreed to develop a new national marketing research service that combines Arbitron's portable people meter service, which measures TV and radio audiences, [...]

For years the publishing industry has struggled to find a digital formula that would entice readers and not cause publishers to go broke. So maybe it's time to return to […]

RUNNING PRESS WILL launch a new venture early next year that will allow consumers to design their own personalized book jackets for the company's Miniature Editions titles using a patent-pending [...]

In an effort to reverse a 12.9 percent slide in ad pages through May this year - the biggest decline among the Seven Sister books - Ladies' Home Journal will [...]