Domtar Announces Nov. 1 Increase on Cut Size

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Domtar moved ahead with a cutsize paper price increase of $60/ton ($3/cwt), a contact said today, that raises all of the firm's business uncoated freesheet (UFS) papers, including Domtar mill brands, private label brands, and the Xerox brand. The increase is effective Nov. 1 in North America.

All standard differentials for support sizes and recycled products apply, according to Domtar.
International Paper also plans a $60/ton increase, effective Oct. 23, for its cutsize office papers, and Glatfelter and Cascades plan $60 increases for their cutsize papers on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, respectively.

The $60 increase for Domtar's cutsize paper follows the company's recent price increase announced on all of its other UFS grades, for $60, effective Oct. 15.

More Mills AnnounceI Increases

American Eagles has announced a price increase of $3.00/cwt, effective with shipments on or after November 1, on the following grades: Eagle Offset, Eagle Envelope, Eagle Kraft Envelope, Eagle Reply Card 7PT, Eagle Select, and Eagle Index.
FutureMark has announced a price increase of $40/ton, effective with shipments on or after November 1, on the following grades: all75, 80 and 85 brightness recycled highbrights, including Future Book UC, Future Mystique and Future Office.
Norpac has announced an increase of $2.00/cwt ($40/ton) for its uncoated groundwood hi-brite papers, effective with shipments on or after Nov. 1.
The increase applies to the company's Norbrite grades including Norbrite 75, Norbrite Plus, Norbrite Offset, Norbrite 92, Norbrite Opaque, Norbrite Cream and Recycled Norbrite Book Cream, as well as book grades.

Sappi Confirms Delisting From NYSE

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130930-908265.html

Following its 9 September 2013 announcement of its intention to delist its American Depositary shares ("ADSs"), which are evidenced by American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs"), from the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), Sappi Limited ("Sappi" or the "Company") (NYSE: SPP) confirms that the delisting of its ADSs from the NYSE became effective today, as scheduled. This follows the filing by Sappi of a Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on 19 September 2013.

PRC Closed, Mailers Contend With Exigency Threat

http://www.dmnews.com/prc-is-closed-but-mailers-contend-with-exigency-threat/article/314445/

Last week the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) was given 90 days to decide on the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) request for an 4.3% exigent rate increase, but the PRC stands closed today as part of the federal government shutdown. If the shutdown lingers, the PRC's deadline could be extended, but mailers are at work mulling contingencies surrounding the proposed increase.“If the shutdown is temporary, we're assuming that the PRC will try to keep within the original deadline, and if they decide to move forward we'll be quickly able to file some things,” says Jerry Cerasale, SVP of governmental affairs at the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). For now, the DMA is busy crafting a written statement for the PRC's deliberations, but it is also girding for a more severe confrontation down the road.

Pitney Bowes Completes Sale to Apollo

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Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced the successful completion of the sale of Pitney Bowes Management Services for $400 million in cash to funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE:APO) (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “Apollo”). Proceeds from the sale of the business will be used principally to pay down debt. 
Pitney Bowes Management Services becomes a standalone company which will operate under a new name to be determined by Apollo.

'New York' Launches Pinterest

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/210472/new-york-launches-pinterest-account.html#axzz2gbDQur87

New York magazine has launched a Pinterest account to highlight the magazine’s visual content. Among the boards at launch are: TV Funnies (original artwork created for Vulture, based on television shows), Great Rooms (integrating the content from design editor Wendy Goodman’s Design Hunting franchise), a This Week’s Issue board, and Fried Things, “a celebration of all things crisp and beautiful.” New York’s Facebook following has nearly tripled over the last year, to over 200,000.

Hearst, AOL Partner on Subscription Service

http://www.foliomag.com/2013/publishers-aol-partner-subscription-service#.Ukx8MiSYyKw

Publishers have partnered with AOL on a new bundled-subscription offering the company rolled out Monday. 
The service, Gathr, packages subscriptions to a variety of products and services at a discount. Offerings—there are currently 24 separate options—range from Pandora to Redbox to Norton AntiVirus software, and include annual subscriptions to seven magazines like National Geographic, Maxim and Cosmo (Hearst is the biggest contributor right now with four titles offered). Bundles include four items and run $15 to $30 a month.

Evite Now Selling Paper Invitations

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/evite-now-selling-paper-invitations-time-20440899

Evite is going the paper route. The website, which pioneered digital invitations 15 years ago, is launching paper invites for the first time. 
Customers can now create invitations online, have them printed by Evite and sent directly to party guests. The cards cost $2 each, plus any postage fees. The company is calling its new line of paper cards Evite Ink.

The Value of Design Elements in Print Catalogs

http://www.retailonlineintegration.com/article/the-value-design-elements-print-catalogs/1

Q: "Our catalogs tend to be crammed with photos and descriptions. How do I demonstrate to upper management the value of design elements, white space and larger photos per spread?" — Angela Sanchez, creative director, NLC Products
A: Most C-level execs are primarily interested in increasing sales and decreasing costs. Therefore, whatever you present to them needs to speak to one or both of those interests. Try this two-step approach:
1. Mock up a couple of catalog spreads done the way you think they should look. Point out the advantages of your new look. For example: "Enlarging this best-seller's product image grabs attention, making viewers more likely to stop and look at the rest of products on the spread" or "See how this revised layout helps the eye to flow through the spread, seeing all the products, whereas in this old layout, product X and Y are getting visually lost.". And  more...

20 Newsweek/Beast Staff Lose Jobs

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About 20 editorial and business-side Newsweek/Daily Beast employees were let go as Newsweek was formerly handed over to new owner IBT Media on Oct. 1. NY Post says Richard Just, former editor of The New Republic, and his deputy, Louise Roug, who had been producing the digital version for Newsweek, are among those not joining IBT. 

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Domino to Announce Relaunch Thursday

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Condé Nast will unveil the title’s relaunch, focused on an e-commerce site, plus a print quarterly, in a story in NY Times on Thursday. Project Décor—a year-old e-commerce design site launched by, among others, Andy Appelbaum, one of the cofounders of Seamless Web, and Cliff Sirlin, an angel investor—is taking the lead in Domino’s revival and is handling the back-end of the sales.
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The Washington Post Closes Sale to Jeff Bezos

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-closes-sale-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/2013/10/01/fca3b16a-2acf-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html

Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper by the Graham family.
Bezos’s $250 million purchase was completed as expected with the signing of sale documents. The signing transfers the newspaper and other assets from The Washington Post Co. to Nash Holdings, Bezos’s private investment company.

Time Inc. Acquires American Express Publishing

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/time-inc-completes-transaction-to-acquire-american-express-publishing-from-american-express-2013-10-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Time Inc. and American Express today announced that Time Inc.'s acquisition of American Express Publishing Corporation has been completed. The company, with brands including Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time Inc.