Cheezburger Network, the profitable publisher of "I Can Has Cheezburger?" and other absurd Web sites, recently raised $30 million to expand.
With an old hand in charge again, the profitable publisher may be kept, and the loss-making online ventures ditched.Whether there is still much demand for chief executives like Messrs Sommer, Messier and Middelhoff remains to be seen.
Alfred A Knopf was certainly not the largest or most profitable publisher in the city, but the company brought a unique mix of cosmopolitanism and style to an industry characterised by caution, narrow horizons and cultural cringe before all things British.
But again, in the context of the net, it makes us one of the most profitable publishers".
But the stated profit margins at FT Publishing are flattered by dividends from the Economist Group, the highly-profitable publisher of the Economist, in which Pearson owns a 50% stake.
We have an expansive conception of what context means and believe new tools can make news better for readers, more fun to publish as journalists and more profitable for publishers, big and small.
Challenged by the fact that the cheap replication of a print-style advertising model no longer is profitable, more publishers will have to look to more innovative ways to incorporate their commerce with their content.
The entire educational software business has been through a sweeping consolidation, with three or four companies now accounting for most titles, and even those struggling to remain profitable, said Jeffrey Tarter, publisher of Softletter, an industry newsletter.
Even with this sketchy description, you get my point: by compiling and analysing behavioural data, it is possible to make a news service much more attractive for the reader – and much more profitable for the publisher.
Based on Luo Guanzhong's famous historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Dynasty Warriors series is understandably adored in the east, and continues to carve a profitable niche for publisher Koei overseas.
One of the most successful forms of advertising ever is the yellow pages: its costs are low enough to make its relative lack of effectiveness still worthwhile to the advertiser, and there are enough advertisers, and yellow pages are cheap enough to produce, that it's profitable for the publisher, too.
