Bonnier News

Bonnier Joins Aller and Egmont in Nordic Digital Magazine Initiative

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-15

Bonnier has founded the Nordic Digital Magazine Initiative with other magazine publishers. The initiative aims to ensure standards, improve the reader experience and better collaborate with advertisers when it comes to e-readers.

Bonnier is joining two of the Nordic region's biggest magazine publishers in starting a new initiative to strengthen the market for digital magazines. A common store is one of the things that will be investigated in the Nordic Digital Magazine Initiative. Along with Bonnier, the founders are Aller and Egmont.

"Our readers love their magazines," says Erik Aller, director general for Aller. "We want to ensure that our readers have an equally amazing experience reading on a tablet computer.

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Twilight Movie Night Nearly Sold Out

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-14

On June 30, the third Twilight movie Eclipse has its world premier. At Sweden's SF Bio, fans can get a headstart with a marathon viewing of the first two movies followed by a showing of Eclipse at midnight.

Foto: Nordisk Film

At 27 of SF Bio's cinemas in Sweden, a special Twilight Movie Night will be held on June 29. The first and second film of the series wil be shown during the evening, and at midnight the third film will have its world premier - The Twilight Saga - Eclipse. The official premier is actually June 30, so SF Bio's event is the first showing of the film for which you can buy tickets.

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Finland's Aamun Radio Launches Website

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-14

Radio Nova's popular morning show Aamun Radio grabs listeners with a new website.

News flash from Finland: Aamun Radio, the morning program at Radio Nova is in rebellion. The show, with 445,000 weekly listeners, is one of the most popular at Finland's No. 1 commercial radio station. "The problem is that we produce so much content that radionova.fi doesn't have the site capacity to handle it," Aamun radio scriptwriter Jupe Tuomola was quoted as saying in a recent press release.

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Parenting Ages & Stages Now an iPhone App

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-11

Parenting releases a new app for parents: Parenting Ages & Stages.

The latest multimedia launch from Parenting is the new Parenting Ages & Stages application, bringing one of Parenting's most popular magazine features to life on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Website Launched Under New Bonnier Tidskrifter Brand Nya Affärer

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-11

The latest release from Bonnier Tidskrifter is a new brand: Nya Affärer. With a website, an upcoming magazine, events and more, Nya Affärer is aimed at Swedish entrepreneurs.

With a target group of Swedish entrepreneurs, and NyaAffarer.se is the first product under the Nya Affärer brand which will include events and a print magazine with the first issue released in the fall.

Nya Affärer is part of the business press segment of Bonnier Tidskrifter along with Veckans Affärer, Privata Affärer and

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SDS Launches Hamtmat.se Takeout Food Delivery for the Web and iPhone

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-11

Tommy K. Andersson, business developer for the SDS Group, talks about a new app for takeout food from Sydsvenskan.

A week ago, the SDS Group launched Sweden's newest site for food lovers: Hamtmat.se, for ordering takeout food delivery via the web. Site visitors type in their postal codes and they get a list of restaurants offering takeout delivery. They can then order and pay via the site, and the food will be delivered to their doorsteps.

The service is also available as an iPhone application.

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Florida Travel + Life Launches TV Show

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-11

The new Florida Travel + Life's Affordable Luxury series, based on the magazine, debuts on the Travel Channel.

Bonnier Corporation's Florida Travel + Life has taken a bold step: the magazine has extended its brand to television. The new TV series takes viewers to Florida's hottest destinations and offers insider tips on where to stay, dine, shop and play. Florida Travel + Life's Affordable Luxury debuted this month and airs Saturdays in the U.S. on the Travel Channel, with additional air dates on channels such as Sun Sports.

Florida Travel + Life's Affordable Luxury will journey to Miami, Northwest Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, St.

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Tammi's Manga Imprints Capture Finland's 13-year-olds

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-07

Sangatsu Manga and Punainen jättiläinen, Tammi's two manga imprints, try a novel way to reach their core audience.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines manga as "a Japanese comic book or graphic novel." A pretty colorless description for a complex genre. Read back to front, top to bottom and right to left, with conventions for storytelling, style of illustration and even the ratio of text to picture, manga has become a global phenomenon. Although real manga is always from Japan, it has spawned versions in other cultures and inspired designers with its often elegant illustrations. And it's been a hit everywhere from the U.S.

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Kids Book Series "Ranger in Danger" from Five Mile Press

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-04

With a launch for kids at a zoo and a popular web game, Five Mile Press' new "Ranger in Danger" series is already a success.

What better place to launch a new animal book series for kids than at a zoo - which is where Australia's Five Mile Press released its new Ranger in Danger series recently.