PePcon and InDesign Secrets Live, DPSCreate™, Tablet Advertising, New CEO for Penton Media, & Heart and Condé Nast Sell CoMag:
Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week we’re discussing PePcon and InDesign Secrets Live, tablet advertising challenges, Penton Media’s new CEO, Heart and Condé Nast’s latest business deal, and the Kindle Fire’s fourth-quarter sales.
- David Blatner announced that registration is now open for the PePcon and InDesignSecrets Live conferences. PePcon is a three-day conference in San Francisco that promises to cover topics such as “Producing eBooks from InDesign: ePub and Kindle,” “InDesign to iPad and Android Apps,” “Let’s Talk Future: How to Prepare for the Next Two Years,” and “Let’s Talk PDF: Best Practices for Print Workflows.” InDesignSecrets Live is a two-day, one-track seminar in New York City presented by InDesign experts Anne-Marie Concepcion, Bob Levine, Sandee Cohen, Mike Rankin, and David Blatner.
- DPSCreate™ made it into the Staff Picks section of the Adobe Digital Publishing Gallery. Check out some of the reviews or download a copy of DPSCreate™ in the Apple App Store.
- Rob O’Regan discussed what is continually a hot topic as the popularity of tablets grows: the challenges that publishers are facing when it comes to in-app advertising.
- David Kieselstein, former CEO of TNS North America, is taking over the CEO position at Penton Media. Tyler Zachem and Anup Bagaria will step down from their interim co-CEO positions when Kieselstein officially starts on Feb. 21.
- Hearst and Condé Nast exited the magazine distribution business with the sale of their co-owned national magazine distributor CoMag, ending what many have considered a strange partnership. Canadian entrepreneur Jim Pattison is CoMag’s new owner.
- Stifel Nicolas analyst Jordan Rohan estimated fourth-quarter sales of the Kindle Fire to be close to 6 million units. It continues to be suggested that Amazon’s profits will grow not from sales of the Kindle Fire device but through digital purchases.
This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know.
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