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Rolling Stone's Take on Guitar Hero

in News on May 19, 2009 at 8:06 am PT

Rolling Stone magazine’s break with tradition continues. Seven months after scrapping its iconic oversized format, the biweekly publication will enter the videogame business with the May 26 release of Rolling Stone: Drum King, produced by 505 Games for the Nintendo Wii.
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A Miserable Three Months for the Magazine Business: Sales Down 20 Percent (At Least)

in Media on April 15, 2009 at 10:16 am PT

If you talked to any remotely candid publisher about magazine performance during the first three months of this year, the response would be a glower and an epithet. Here’s what that translates to in numbers: Ad revenue was down 20.2 percent, and ad pages were down 25.9 percent. But that probably understates how bad it was.
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Magazine Giant Meredith: Our Ads Are Lousy, Too

in Media on October 29, 2008 at 5:48 am PT

Why is Time Inc. planning on shedding six percent of its staff? The new numbers released by the magazine publisher behind titles like Ladies’ Home Journal offer a grim clue: Ad revenues are down 18 percent in the last year, and the next quarter looks equally bad.