Time Inc’s latest wheeze to revitalise the magazine industry launches in a few weeks. MagHound takes the NetFlix subscriber model (LoveFilm for you Britishers) and applies it to magazines: any titles you want for a fixed fee. It’s a bold idea, but there’s a few crucial details yet to be confirmed that will make the difference between it being the Messiah or just a very naughty boy.
The energy of the best magazines, the knowledge of the deepest insiders. Four books, four stories, four cities.
If you’ll pardon me a moment, a rather special project of mine has recently reached fruition. And I think you might like it.
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Capricious #8 is unbound
Each spread is kept loose, so it can go up on your wall. Reminds me of Rakete, the rather fine poster magazine produced by students in Düsseldorf
BBC to launch Lonely Planet magazine
Grauniad claims it will compete with Conde Nast Traveller and Sunday Times Travel. Surely it’s more likely to have Wanderlust and similar in its sights?
Esquire US produces handwritten cover lines
Now plagiarising itself
New luxury mag for iPhone
Not a first per se but having daily refreshed content in a bimonthly you buy on iTunes sounds intriguingly confusing. The price point sends mixed signals too
Is this the launch of the revamped Baron/O’Brien Interview?
The Kate Moss/Catwoman cover line suggests so. I wonder how those half-tones will come out in the printing? UPDATE: Yep, with increased distribution too
BAD IDEA opens up the Butcher’s Shop
Transparency and a lesson in good editing; mouseover for detailed comments. Part of their new Writer’s Lab
(Yet another) new contemporary arts magazine “takes flight”
I like the look of its selection, how it gives images space, and the playfulness of some of the giant typography. Will need good printing to make it all stand out. Not sure why, but it feels similar to the less-inspiring-but-also-Aussie Monument. Maybe it’s the architecture spread
Lad mags to blame for society’s ills
“Instant-hit hedonism” isn’t a bad tagline, actually
Time Inc to produce films based on its magazine articles
Expect the headline “Time and motion pictures” to appear somewhere soon
Mygazines saga continues
Exact Editions smells a rat regarding the regularity of what’s been scanned in so far by “users”. No more news from Mr Smith; meanwhile the discussion goes on
Everywhere magazine gets mothballed
Back “before the end of the year“. Disclosure: I have a piece in the latest (last?) edition. I was invited to contribute, which is a little different from the UGC model it espouses; I’ll receive the same payment as all the other contributors, though hopefully the free subscription will be transferred to the still-running JPG
American store pulls Mad magazine for spoof ad
“Embarrassed corporate PR guy” backpedals frantically
David Rowan is to edit Wired UK
With Danger Hammersley as Number Two, it seems
Faber dabbles in print on demand
Rather a lovely way of putting old books back into print. Magazines next?
John Smith of Mygazines.com has sent the following response to my previous post
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for taking the time to write about Mygazines. I did however want to clear up a few misunderstandings about our site.
