Advertising is next
Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors — that is, to say, on brand advertising. So it is astonishing to hear its CEO, Chuck Townsend, essentially toss the company’s business model out the window of the Death Star in what The Times frames as “a fundamental overhaul of the advertising-based business model.”...
Getting Laid Beats Getting Laid-Off: Condé Willing to Try Anything Online, Launches Dating Site
Now would be a good time for the folks at Condé Nast to make a brave and convincing foray into the online world, right? And so they have — well, it's brave at least — with the launch of a new dating site trulymadlydating.com. Something is terribly wrong with the core business and the publishing...
Leaked Time Inc. E-Book Memo Reveals Possible Publisher Alliance
A Bay Area website revealed today an internal Time Inc. document outlining plans to start competing with Amazon's Kindle and other electronic readers before the end of the year. Buried in the piece however is perhaps a more stunnign revelation - Time Inc. execs appear to have discussed the new venture with...
