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The operation of the register, not the ownership of the data, is the key to the large potential profits from title insurance.
Mr Pickard's role is squaring the Western investors' worries about profits and title with the Ukrainian partners' ability to make things happen (perhaps, eventually).The project has been several years in gestation; and while Mr Pickard waits, and waits, for the last few technicalities to fall into place, he has other strings to his bow.
I'm told that the last time we received such a high level of correspondence was after the broadcast of Grave Digging Live: In Search of Diana – but on this occasion, instead of insightful documentary-making ruffling the feathers of the botched and the bungled, it was a harmless piece of writing in Auto Trader's not-for-profit sister title, the Guardian, that set the cat amongst the pigeons.
But on the side, Kurtz is president of Prometheus Books, a publishing house that turns a small profit on titles like Science: Good, Bad and Bogus by Martin Gardner, and others by authors such as the late Isaac Asimov.
For profit-driven titles this means accepting a fall in advertising revenue.
Mr. Bennack, the 80-year-old chief executive of Hearst, used profits from titles like Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping to build the magazine and newspaper chain into a diversified company with investments in television, a ratings agency and health care information.
Competitors resent the fact it is using profits from titles that trade on shows made with licence fee money to subsidise forays into new markets – including an Indian edition of Grazia published in a joint venture with the Times of India.
My band, as an example, was returned 50% of the net profit on every title that we released through our record label.
