Dead Tree Edition

The pandemic has been death for dead-tree-edition periodicals, but other types of print are doing just fine. Direct mail, for example, is as relevant as ever, as I explained in an article pu...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2020/08/dead-tree-editions-are-dying-but-dead.html

The marketing company that owns Us Weekly and other magazines announced late yesterday that it had rid the magazine industry of its biggest embarrassment.Accelerate is merging with (that is, taki...

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Ron Stroman Two days after it announced its selection of a new chief executive, the U.S. Postal Service's #2 official submitted his resignation, the USPS revealed today. "On May 8, 2020, Ronald A...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2020/05/assistant-postmaster-calls-it-quits.html

A U.S. Postal Service employee recently received triple the annual pay of fellow mail handlers by working 4,578 hours during a single year. That’s the equivalent of clocking in for more than 12...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2020/04/cashing-in-on-usps-overtime-why-many.html

By a strange coincidence, four separate events on the same day pretty much tell you everything you need to know about magazine media in 2020. Not un-undead yet I could have just waited a few hour...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-will-magazine-publishing-be-like.html

If you think 2019 was a good year for magazine publishing, you're ignoring the many iconic publications that died or became "zombies." And if you think 2019 was a bad year for magazine publishing...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/12/dawn-of-undead-recap-of-us-magazine.html

Cliff diving: Quad stock price on Yahoo! First Meredith, now Quad. The nation's largest magazine printer just entered the same shark-infested water that the country's largest magazine publisher f...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/10/quads-value-drops-60-in-two-days-and.html

UPDATE: Quad's stock price lost more than half its value at the opening bell on October 30 and was still down 53% nearly three hours later.   The second largest printer of books in the Unite...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/10/quadgraphics-exiting-book-business.html

Thanks to the big-data revolution, subscribing to a magazine may help you overcome a weak credit score. Many lenders are looking beyond credit scores to determine the credit-worthiness of consume...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/09/need-loan-subscribe-to-magazine.html

Tom Harty sounds like a guy who thought he’d bought a shiny new car, only to find out the engine had been removed right before he wrote the check. And who then failed to report the theft to his...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/09/merediths-time-management-problem.html

"A printing press is a printing press." Update: About two hours after this article was published, Quad and LSC announced they were calling the deal off. More to come. Quad and LSC Communications ...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/07/weak-quad-and-lsc-offered-to-shed.html

Printers' request for expedited trial is rejected. In another sign that Quad’s proposed acquisition of rival printer LSC Communications isn't going as planned, a federal judge has rejected the ...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/07/judge-delays-quad-lsc-merger.html

The U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit seeking to block Quad's purchase of printing rival LSC Communications relies heavily on comments from the two companies themselves. "As LSC CEO Tom Quinlan r...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-feds-used-quads-and-lscs-own-words.html

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal court late this afternoon to block Quad's proposed acquisition of fellow megaprinter LSC Communications. JUNE 21 UPDATE: Quad says it will "vigorous...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/06/justice-department-tries-to-block-quad_20.html

An independent government watchdog today seemingly refuted President Trump’s claims that the U.S. Postal Service loses “a fortune” on a sweetheart deal with Amazon. The USPS Office of Inspe...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/05/study-refutes-trumps-claim-that-usps.html

A printing-industry expert believes the federal officials who questioned him about the proposed merger of printing giants Quad and LSC Communications are unlikely to “rubberstamp” the deal. �...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/05/justice-department-seems-open-minded-on.html

The choices are constrained. Pigeonholes. That’s the trouble with print advertising these days. Pigeonholes. Judging from reader feedback, I apparently hit a nerve recently in a Publishing Exec...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/03/fitting-pigeonholes-challenge-of.html

How can a marketplace with 28,000 companies have shortages of both capacity and competition? Book printing at a Walsworth plant The United States has more than 28,000 printing businesses. So how ...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/03/theres-no-such-thing-as-printing.html

SPONSORED CONTENT Sunset golf at Falconhead Austin, Texas, is one of the United States’ most-visited cities. The city itself has an eclectic feel and is thriving in a wealth of growth and new b...

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By D. Eadward Tree, Chief Arborist of Dead Tree Edition My latest article for Publishing Executive looks at some ways digital publishers are often governed by assumptions that are true in the pri...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/02/4-print-centric-assumptions-publishers.html

By D. Eadward Tree, Chief Arborist of Dead Tree Edition This is the year, the pundits tell us, when digital publishing will pivot to paywalls. Good luck with that. Getting people to pay for onlin...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/02/5-things-publishers-should-do-before.html

Comail is working. But in Postal Land, no good deed goes unpunished. Like lashing two water-tight boats to a sinking vessel. The good news — for mailers, printers, and the U.S. Postal Service �...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/01/usps-proposal-could-spread-pain-to.html

Postal officials still have no fixes for a money-losing billion-dollar boondoggle, except to jack up postage rates for catalogs and magazines.  Source: USPS reports. The Leakage metric was i...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-fss-slows-and-red-ink-flows.html

Claiming that U.S. Postal Service employees are paid much better than workers at FedEx and UPS, a presidential task force wants to de-fang the postal labor unions. "USPS employees enjoy a pay and...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2018/12/overpaid-usps-workers-should-lose.html

Chatham apparently controls AmericanMedia, publisher of the National Enquirer Yesterday's announcement from the owner of the country's largest magazine wholesaler seems to have flown beneath the ...

http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2018/11/hedge-funds-buys-newsstand-giant.html