Monday, June 18, 2012

Publishers Using Innovative "Bookazines" to Sell Content


At the Publishing Business Conference in March, Mark White, vice president of specialty marketing at U.S. News, spoke about his company’s marketing of bookazines— hybrids of books and magazines that hold promise for publishers looking for new ways to reach niche audiences with repurposed content. Bookazines combine all that people find pleasing about magazines with the permanence, niche appeal and price-point of books. National Geographic has also seen bookazine opportunity in its extensive content archives geared toward niche interests with National Geographic Magazine Collector’s Editions.