[8:46 pm: Updates with more accurate description of Pamela Weintraub's role at the magazine.]
Following the news that Discover magazine will be moving to Waukesha, Wisconsin at the end of the...
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17Aug 2012
[8:46 pm: Updates with more accurate description of Pamela Weintraub's role at the magazine.]
Following the news that Discover magazine will be moving to Waukesha, Wisconsin at the end of the year, I asked Editor in Chief Corey Powell what he could tell me about the transition and the magazine's future.
The executives at Kalmbach Publishing Co., which bought Discover two years ago, have told Powell that they "like the magazine as it is, and the intention is to keep the magazine intact." Several members of the staff have been offered the opportunity to move to Waukesha--including Powell--but no one has accepted that offer so far. Powell said he has decided not to make the move. "For all intents and...
13Aug 2012
Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
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Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
Kalmbach Publishing Co. said it would close Discover's offices in New York in January, 2013.
Kalmbach said this was "a strategic move to better leverage all its publishing resources and integrate its science media properties," a phrase I trust would never appear in the magazine. (Disclosure: I write frequently for Discover.)
The release said that Discover editor-in-chief Corey Powell "will continue to lead the magazine through the transition"--meaning, I assume, that he will not be leading it after the transition. It said that he and executive editor Pamela Weintraub will "continue to have an...
Carl Zimmer has published at least two ebooks, although I don't know where...
Carl Zimmer has published at least two ebooks, although I don't know where he found the time. That's because he seems to have made a full-time career out of studying the ebook market, the apps, the publishers, and anything else possibly related to publishing ebooks. If you are at all interested in collecting and publishing those pieces that you rescued from a defunct magazine or website, you should see what he, and co-organizer Tammy Powledge, had to say.
Their list of resources can be found here. It amounts to a semester-long course in epublishing, and you couldn't find better teachers.
If you'd like a little lighter reading, on a very...
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