Monday, February 9, 2009

The Print Biz Consumer Mags Struggle Online And Post Worsening Newstand Sales. With digital revenues still barely making up 10 percent of total revs, when it comes to magazine publishers, the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations provide only more bad tidings for the print side.  As Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici breaks down ABC's latest FAS-FAX report (sub. req.) newsstand sales fell 11.1 percent in the last six months of '08 to roughly 43 million units. Meanwhile, paid subscriptions grew a meager .53 percent. Total circulation was down .86 percent industry-wide in H208. One of the biggest drops among the top 25 largest mags was Reader's Digest, which dropped 12.38 percent. Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO). title Newsweek did even worse, as paid circulation plunged 13.10 percent compared to the same period the year before. In terms of digital figures, while many magazines have some premium content behind a pay wall, FAS-FAX does not break out online subscriptions, although it does include those amounts as part of the full results. Related Mag Publishers: Digital Barely Made A Dent In '08 Ad Revenues More Steep Declines In Newspaper Circ: FAS-FAX From Our Sponsors: FinancialContent is a leading provider of stock market data, business news and content syndication services. We develop content, traffic and revenue opportunities for publishers and advertisers in the financial media industry. For more information, click here. [paidContent.org] 9:09:26 PM

Sleeping in the Driveway, Brian Harnetty Brian Harnetty/Bonnie Prince Billy-Sleeping the Driveway Video. Brian Harnetty is a Columbus local/ mild-mannered giant. Brian dropped an album on Altavistic awhile back called "American Winter". "American Winter" had Harnetty sampling historic Appalachian archives from Berea College's vaults to create new compositions that honored and echoed it's source material while also expressing Harnetty's own political and emotional visions. I guess Bonnie Prince Billy was peeping game. He hooked up with Harnetty and jumped on some tracks for Brian's upcoming album "Silent City", out in June on Altavistic. This first song is Sleeping in the Driveway. [donewaiting.com] 7:06:44 AM