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The Newsweek Dilemma

The Washington Post Company announced this week that Newsweek magazine is for sale.  A buyer will be tough to find, given that Donald E. Graham, Chair and CEO of The Washington Post Company, says Newsweek lost $15.4 million in 2008 and $28.1 million in 2009.  Graham adds, “we don’t see a sustained path to profitability.”     [...]

Magazine sales take a nosedive

Magazine sales took a nosedive at the newsstand…down 9% overall in the 2nd half of last year.  Newsweek, Time and W  lost 35-40%.   Silicon Alley’s Business Insider says publishers are looking at the iPad and other tablets to get them into the big online newsstands so they can recover these losses.   The story comes with a nifty [...]