Tag Archives: F+W Publications

O’er the Hudson

Far-Flung Regional Houses Hit the Heartland Bull’s-Eye Just one word: scrapbooking. Yes, scrapbooking is the fastest-growing hobby sector in the United States, with sales of related supplies — presumably including books — quadrupling in the past five years to an estimated $2 billion, as the New York Times recently noted, and projected to grow as…Continue Reading

‘Aggressive Whitetail Hunting’? You Bet.

When F+W Publications mines an enthusiast vein, it goes deep. No retailable nugget of esoterica, it seems, is too recondite for the Cincinnati-headquartered magazine, book, and book club empire, which publishes such über-niche offerings as Aggressive Whitetail Hunting and Raw Edge Appliqué. It operates Camp Memory Makers, the weekend scrapbooking retreat, and The Fantasy Football…Continue Reading