We live in Italy and we currently have subscriptions by mail to three British magazines: The Economist, The Tablet and the Times Literary Supplement. They all charge a premium for posting to Italy, and they arrive in a very strange order. The Tablet gets here usually on the Saturday one day after its Friday publication in the UK. Presumably it is printed on the Thursday. The TLS usually gets to Florence five or six days late. Thursday this … Keep Reading
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There are important differences between the market for scientific, technical and medical journals (STM), and the market for consumer magazines. For one thing, the STM market is almost entirely in the English language, which is not true for consumer magazines. For another advertising is much more important in consumer magazine publishing. But there are also similarities between the two industries and one of the similarities is that the consumer magazine market will inexorably drift towards electronic delivery, as the … Keep Reading
The magazine not the band, what a difference an ‘s’ makes. Bondidigital, who have given us The New Yorker on DVD, and on memory stick, are now going to produce 40 years of Rolling Stone magazine in their proprietary digital magazine format.
The complete archive of The New Yorker is stunning value for $29.95 — that is for 4,000 issues, 80 odd years, but think of all the cartoons. Mind you the hard drive or memory stick at $199 … Keep Reading
The fortyfirst title in the Exact Editions shop.
- We could be here now?
- You would need your ice axe for the Knoydart peninsula.
- When sideburns were mutton chops.
Samir Husni takes FT reporter James Chaffin to task for an article headlined ‘Time and Hearst focus on new media rather than new titles’. Husni counters with some statistics on new launches:
… Keep ReadingEven if you exclude the specials and one shots, here are some of the numbers of new magazine launches going back to 1984. Keep in mind these are all new magazine launches with at least four time launch frequency. Starting in 1984 the numbers are 134, 203,