The Week magazine is going to produce an online-only magazine issue, about environmental issues. The issue will be sponsored by Lexus as a showcase for its hybrid products. According to the New York Times Lexus will be spending over $500,000 on the sponsorship of this special issue.
… Keep ReadingThe extra issue is scheduled for April 20 and will be available online for a week. Its theme will be the environment. That, the publishers say, is another reason the issue will not
Monocle is one of the most interesting magazine launches of recent years. It is inspired by Tyler Brûlé, whose previous magazine launch was Wallpaper*
Monocle has a very strong visual design (as one would expect from a Brûlé concept). Black as a cover, which gives it a strong contrast on the news stand. It is also a very ambitious editorial project (as one would expect). It is particularly interesting in the way the web service includes broadcast and is … Keep Reading
Harper’s is one of America’s oldest magazines. It has a broadly progressive and liberal stance and after a sticky patch in the early 1980’s, it has been notably enterprising in its publishing with the current management. Harper’s has now produced an archive of its 157 years of monthly back issues. PaidContent has a note about this. The archive is available to all current print subscribers. I could not see an option for ‘electronic only’ access, but if you reside … Keep Reading
Book Publishers seem to have given up on negotiating with Google and are relying on the various court cases to stop the “Do not be evil” Bad Guys. There was an extended example of book-world whingeing in Charkinblog yesterday (reproducing in full (?) a piece by Nick Clee from the Times Literary Supplement — not available online). Here are some representative grumbles:
… Keep ReadingA victory for Google [in the various court actions] – or an extension of legal wranglings to a
Yesterday a publisher asked me why a user would prefer a digital edition to a comprehensive web site which reproduces all the magazine’s contents? It is a good question. There are at least three reasons why a publisher who cares about his subscribers and has a comprehensive web service will also want to offer access to a digital edition:
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