http://www.minonline.com MinOnline en-us 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:47:56 EST The 90-year-old buttoned down and serious-minded Foreign Affairs journal has sported that signature powder blue cover for decades. But the brand has leveraged a fresh look online to drive cross-platform success. The brand’s vibrant digital feeds of timely news and opinion is helping the print magazine... http://www.minonline.com/news/19903.html Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:15:36 EST Luxury design publisher Cottages & Gardens will roll out a new title in March aimed at the affluent hoods of New York. New York Cottages & Gardens is targeting upper-income areas of the city, Westchester Country, Long Island and Hudson Valley. The content focuses on décor... http://www.minonline.com/news/19904.html Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:00:05 EST Mobile media and industry events appear to be made for each other, but most b2b publishers have only been experimenting with apps and mobile sites that help guide their conference attendees. UBM TechWeb is aiming to make mobile apps a standard part of their event experience in a new deal with... http://www.minonline.com/news/19905.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 6:28:05 EST Let us be frank: the "lowlight" of last week's Audit Bureau of Circulations' release of the consumer magazines' second-half 2011-versus-2010 Fas-Fax is the acceleration (or deceleration) of the newsstand decline that has nearly been consistent for a generation. The 17-up/73-down single-copy-sales... http://www.minonline.com/news/19906.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 6:44:02 EST Concluding our five-year analysis of magazine advertising, we take a look at weekly and biweekly boxscores for 2007-2011 in min (February 6). Only seven of the 30 mags that we track had an upward gain in ad sales for 2011. Three titles deserve recognition here: Bloomberg Businessweek, Autoweek and New York... http://www.minonline.com/news/19899.html Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:55:27 EST Venerable print brand and legendary museum Smithsonian meets the shiny new object. Smithsonian magazine yearns to become something closer to a living museum as it finally brings its monthly title to the iPad in a fully enhanced edition. Selling for $3.99 an issue or by subscription for $19.99/yr or... http://www.minonline.com/news/19900.html Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:08:21 EST Since 1945, a company has bore John H. Johnson's name. Now, a postage stamp does, too, with the Jan. 31 dedication at Johnson Publishing Co. corporate headquarters in Chicago. Johnson (1918-2005) rose from poverty to launch Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951), which made him a leader... http://www.minonline.com/news/19902.html Thu, 9 Feb 2012 9:02:18 EST This isn’t a typo. I am not referring to the 99% movement that began to sweep the country last year. But, an important data point was released by GFK/MRI late last year that is worth noting: the 89%! What am I talking about? Back in November, GFK/MRI released its first wave of data that measured both... http://www.minonline.com/news/19893.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:46:42 EST After designing all of that eye candy, tap functionality and whirling dervish interfaces, publishers may be disappointed to hear that many users would just as soon their tablet magazines calm down. According to the latest survey of GfK MRI’s iPanel of tablet owners who read magazines on their devices... http://www.minonline.com/news/19894.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:27:45 EST Jean de Boisdeffre, CEO of Lagardère Active's international magazines' business until the May 31, 2011, closing of Hearst Magazines' acquisition of the Elle- and Woman's Day-flagshipped Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (part of Hearst Corp.'s 640 euros/$848... http://www.minonline.com/news/19895.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:28:07 EST