Svet mehatronike magazine has an interesting business model – a paid-for subscription of just 4 Euros per year. As I said in an earlier blog post, whilst we’re not talking large amounts of money, it will be interesting to see whether engineers are prepared to make the effort to sign up and pay. As it…
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Svet mehatronike secures 400 paid subscribers in one month!
Sunday, April 28th, 2013Technologies magazine to close at end of March
Friday, March 15th, 2013Sad news: Technologies, the popular Israeli title, is to close at the end of the month. The publisher, K.D.C Technologies Ltd made the decision to cease trading at the beginning of the week. There is some speculation that the brand might be purchased, or that the editorial team might start up a new title: we…
Fare Elettronica switches to 100% digital distribution
Monday, March 11th, 2013The March issue of Fare Elettronica will be the last as a print magazine, and starting from the April issue, Fare Elettronica will be only available in PDF format as a digital magazine. Readers of the publication have been encouraged to switch to a digital subscription since the first digital version. The publishers have also…
EBP plans a future of growth for EDN-Europe
Thursday, February 14th, 2013With the news about the transfer of EDN-Europe from RBI to EBP now official, I had a quick chat with new publisher, Andre Rousselot, to find out about his plans for the publication. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. The first thing Andre talked about was his belief in the future of EDN…
New title for automation, robotics, mechanics and industrial IT in Slovenia
Monday, January 28th, 2013Whilst Western European publishers wonder about the future of B2B magazines, Eastern European publishers are launching successful new titles. AX elektronika d.o.o. has just announced Svet mehatronike, which will be formally launched at IFAM, the automation show to be held at the end of January in Celje, Slovenia. Svet mehatronike will have 4 issues in…
Interference Technology launches 2013 Europe EMC Guide
Monday, January 28th, 2013Interference Technology has published the 2013 Europe EMC Guide, which contains technical articles, standards, resources, and events from 10 countries, as well as a directory of EMC products and services from 36 European countries. The guide is available as a tablet edition, and all articles – including those originally in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish,…
Fine Street adds control title to its portfolio
Monday, January 28th, 2013Fine Street has added Control Engineering Russia to it’s portfolio, a great move that complements it’s existing publications, including Components and Technologies.
How to create the perfect tablet publication
Friday, January 25th, 2013There’s a really nice article in AdWeek that talks about how people interact with publications on a tablet. With facts such as 70% of people prefer holding their tablet in landscape to the unsurprising news that the most commonly used action is a horizontal swipe, this article is useful for both publishers and marketers.
Quantum ceases publication with immediate effect
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013Sad to hear that Crown Publications has decided to close Quantum after 18 years. Crown have decided to walk away from the electronics industry completely, closing both the print edition and the website with “immediate effect”, although they plan to continue their electrical industry titles.
