Magellan Media provides consulting services to publishers and businesses with publishing components.
Our principals have compiled successful track records as business unit heads, line managers and consultants, consistently delivering results for major magazine, book and new media entities.
As a focused consulting firm, Magellan Media offers its clients solutions that immediately benefit the bottom line. Our staff requires no learning curve; we structure projects as focused engagements and deliver recommendations that improve operating and financial results.
Magellan Media also brings its clients its best thinking in areas of current and emerging interest to the publishing and media sector. Downloads of several presentations relevant to our publishing and media clients are also available on the site.
Conference participation and upcoming presentations are listed on our events page.
A good newsstand overview
Circulation guru John Harrington surveys the state of magazine marketing
Count again
Why 7.4 million "active" blogs mean a lot
Another log on the fire
Reader's Digest cuts cost and loses more money: what gives?
Pontin’s prescription
'Neither resentment nor hope is a business strategy'
Early bird, no worm
Registration opens for an innovation summit without an agenda, speakers or much innovation
The obvious child
Borrowing from Paul Simon to save trade weeklies
(2)
The impact of piracy
Explaining what's new in the most recent update
(2)
No bad news
Beyond the walls of this fortress
A BEA “blog round-up”
There or not, you'll learn from these BEA posts
BEA and everything after
Time to trade the harvest for the seed
(4)
Piracy interview
On her blog, Sarah Tanner interviews me about piracy
Perfect together
Marry content agility and on-demand technology to meet reader needs
SNAP takes a new name
The new suit: "Association Media and Publishing"
Sell the book
Every association should have a book publishing strategy
Establishing better practice
Associations can use public and purchased data to remain competitive
Two angles, one message
Linking trade weeklies and association content strategies
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Surround your members!
For-profit media competitors can undermine associations
My association wish list
Five things I wish every association asked themselves