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In what way does the quantitative "mix" of subject-matter pre-determine sales and readership profiles?

The quantitative mix of a publication's editorial matter undoubtedly plays a basic role in pre-determining the reader's profile and consequently its circulation. I have intentionally inverted the two elements, because circulation is a function of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Maria Macchi

June 15, 1974

Newspaper segmentation based upon content and treatment factors

In the paper changes in the functions performed by newspapers are analyzed. It is shown how the type of information carried, the role of entertainment and the ability to act as a social reference point for the reader has changed. Also it is discussed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Flemming Hansen

Company: AIM Create

June 15, 1974

The development of Zeit magazin guided by marketing research

The research for this colour magazine a supplement of DIE ZEIT (weekly) started in 1965/66, four years before it was launched, and the research activities are still going on. At the beginning of the planning phase prior to the development of ZEIT...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Georg Gramse

June 15, 1974

The Kansas City milkman and other stories

First of all, a magazine or a newspaper is an object, something that you can touch and handle, something that - with a few exceptions - you have to buy with your own money. Let us take the example of a magazine; its format, its weight, the quality of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Jean Mée

June 15, 1974

Choice of a new target for a weekly magazine

The weekly newspaper 'La Vie Catholique', published in Paris, was founded in 1945 and destined to become a mass-circulation vehicle of expression for a closely circumscribed segment of Catholic opinion. Its circulation figure rose to attain a peak in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Jean-Louis Laborie, Jacqueline Aglietta

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1974

Marginal remarks on the situation of editorial research in 1974

Closing remarks of the seminar: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry (1974).

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Otmar Ernst

June 15, 1974

Market-segmentation in the magazine field

Nowadays it is virtually a matter of course to plan a new product down to the last detail. What is taken for granted in other product sectors is still considered a rarity in the magazine market, although in this field, too, the abundance of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Roswitha Kohrs-Darius

June 15, 1974

The point of view of management towards market research in general and editorial research in particular

The author will try to carry out this welcome task by attempting to give a synthetic picture of the market and of the environment of the country which is host to this seminar (Italy) then going on to relate some experiences of his company. In many...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Napoleone Jesurum

June 15, 1974

The Espresso case history

On the 10th, March 1974, the new Espresso came out: an issue of 128 pages in "Time" magazine format, which covered all the subject matter in the three sections of the old Espresso (Polit./Cult./Econ.). It is a format common to many other weeklies all...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Carlo Erminero, L. Rubini

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1974