Press Gazette: Accountancy Age scraps print edition
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"Incisive Media's Accountancy Age is to go online-only from this week."
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Publishing Executive: Haymarket, Incisive, Reed Business, UBM Medica form UK ad network
BBN press release: "With the addition of these six UK based media companies, also including Decisive Media and Newsco Insider, BBN has strengthened its offering for major brand-building advertisers seeking a large-scale solution for reaching this important target market."
Press Gazette: Computing magazine to go fortnightly
"Lem Bingley, director of content at Computing ... said internal research showed that readers wanted online information during their work day but that print was enjoyed away from the office, so the print edition of Computing was changing to suit the needs of its audience."
paidContent:UK: Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year
"The Association of Online Publishers ... has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010."
Creative Review: The new look BJP
"The British Journal of Photography relaunched last week with an extensive redesign. It's much improved but does it rise to the editor's own challenge of becoming a beautiful photographic magazine?"
ClickZ: TweetDeck Launches ‘JobDeck,’ Teaming Up with Twitter Job Search Engine
"TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has partnered with TweetDeck to launch a dedicated desktop client dubbed JobDeck. The application uses the same technology as the TwitJobSearch site, indexing recruitment related tweets from across the Twittersphere."
Press Gazette: 12 jobs threatened as Incisive closes Personal Computer World
Graham Harman: "Sadly, no amount of hard work or innovation was going to turn around the structural decline in advertising and newsstand sales. The depth of this recession and the ease of access to information online has only served to accelerate the long term downward trend within this particular sector."
The Independent: B2B publishers buck downward trend with profit jumps
"Emap and Incisive Media, the trade magazine publishers owned by private equity giant Apax, are understood to have made surprise profit jumps last year. Retail Week and Local Government Chronicle publisher Emap is believed to have made about £100m pre-tax profit for the 12 months to the end of March, a marginal increase on 2008-09. Turnover was approaching £300m."
Evening Standard: Even trade magazines are feeling the squeeze in the recession
Roy Greenslade in a column on what the B2B publishers are doing to cut their costs: "The web can be seen as an enemy, encroaching on territory once ruled by print, or it can become a friend, acting as a complement to the editorial provided in print form. There are no hard and fast rules about what should go on one platform rather than another. It varies with the particular niche. Some accept that news, like ads, will inevitably feature only on the web. But that allows for longer analytical pieces to be carried in print."
Press Gazette: Readers ‘will turn to blogs if financial reporting is curbed’
Incisive Media submission to the Treasury Committee's investigation on the role of the media in the banking crisis: "Who would [the government] rather became the trusted source of information on a crisis - Robert Peston or whizzyboy36 writing on a blog hosted on a web server in Uzbekistan?"
Journalism.co.uk: FT.com ‘explodes’ with 250 per cent rise in unique users
"According to FT.com internal figures, page views on the site yesterday were up 300 per cent and unique users up 250 per cent compared to figures for the same date last year. ... FT.com's figures follow a report in the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel, which claimed the BBC's business pages recorded their best ever traffic after reporting the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers."
One Man and His Blog: More Evidence for the Death of Print
Adam Tinworth: "When I heard that Press Gazette was switching to publishing once a month, with a features-led magazine, I thought it sounded like a good plan. It was exactly the sort of solution that could save a title - moving upmarket with a more analytical bent. How much to subscribe? £115. That's £7.67 per issue on the current "15 for the price of 12" offer or an eye-watering £9.58 without the offer. That's frankly insane. They're either relying on corporate subscriptions - not a good idea in the current financial climate - or they seriously over-estimate how much disposable income the average journalist has."
Press Gazette: Media Money: No death for print — until the last drop of profit hits the bottom line
Peter Kirwan: "B2B technology publishing is the kind of market where readers migrated online long ago. The one thing a new entrant wouldn’t do under any circumstances is to launch a weekly print magazine. Actually, no-one has done it for the best part of a decade. But oddly, after closing IT Week’s print edition, this is exactly what Incisive will continue to do by continuing to publish Computing. . . as a weekly magazine."
Press Gazette: As IT weeklies merge Incisive warns rivals to change before it’s too late
"As Incisive Media’s first edition of its merger of technology weeklies IT Week and Computing comes out today, managing director Graham Harman has warned that other business titles will need to follow their example or be left behind."