Publishing covers books and magazines as businesses: advances and royalty structures, print runs and returns, distribution terms, backlist and catalog value, and subsidiary rights across audio, translation and screen. Guides explain where margin actually accumulates in a title's life. Written for publishers, agents and authors negotiating their own contracts.
Annual plans cut measured churn dramatically and hand you cash in advance; monthly plans keep the feedback honest — most publishers should sell both and weight annual hard.
Michael Hayes · June 7, 2026
A 148-year-old newspaper owned by a wealthy family asked the IRS to let it become a charity — and the case has since become the reference point for every legacy conversion debate.
Michael Hayes · May 16, 2026
The metered paywall built the NYT's subscription base and then the industry outgrew it — the right wall depends on how much of your traffic is search-driven one-time visitors.
Gabriela Montoya · April 23, 2026
Churn — the share of subscribers who cancel in a period — quietly decides whether a subscription business compounds or treads water, and most of its causes are set in the subscriber's first month.
Gabriela Montoya · March 31, 2026
Bundling raises revenue per subscriber and cuts churn, but only once a publisher clears a product count most outlets never reach; there is a small-publisher version, and it runs on fewer moving parts.
Gabriela Montoya · March 8, 2026