Gary suffers some seasonal anger from the subscription department.
Have a good one.
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In a cross-the-streams moment, Amelia’s Magazine blog has just published an interview with me, talking about blogging, childhood and magazines.
The picture’s her, not me, btw.
AdAge has the lyrics and some titles they couldn’t find rhymes for (via Media Bistro).
No sooner do I bemoan a lack of distributor imagination than one saunters in and does something marvellous. Motto is a Swiss magazine distributor whose blog has been mentioned in posts passim; it has just opened its first physical store in Berlin (open Saturdays only, it seems), and to celebrate has a week of special magazine presentations from Mono.Kultur, Spike, Piktogram, Gagarin and Kilimanjaro, starting today (Dec 16th). Screenings, talks, the unveiling of Mono.Kultur’s new box set, and much more, all in a warmly wooden surrounding. Can’t wait to visit.
Here we have one of the futures of magazines: bespoke spaces for bespoke mags. More, please.
Timeless image for a timeless fallback story. Great cover, and good to see them getting away from the big number theory (“1803 reasons! 935 reasons! 32,803 reasons!”)
History of Time magazine perks
“Put it down as lunch”
Those perks didn’t make the list issue
But I like that cover. Feels very New York magazine
Mag editor celebrates 50 years at the helm
Who’s the longest-running designer?
Looks like print, distributed via blog
Very lovely online fashion zine that I’d love to see on newsprint, created by Romeu Silveira and distributed via blogspot since 2006 (via Thinking for a Living) UPDATE: Bandwidth currently exceeded on the images, but do download the PDFs
Digital magazine association needed
Or at least a digital section of the ones that already exist, to provide sales teams with research to back up their assertions. Though would it really make much of a difference?
Aussie men’s mag loses 130,000 inflatable breasts
Somewhere out there is a floating island that will surprise passing cruise ships
Exact Editions is feeling bullish about Google Magazines
The Big G’s 37% fee and inability to customise among their reasons to be cheerful
A day at the press
Eye gets our hands dirty
Stack offers a different independent magazine every month
Sounds good – but why didn’t any of the big distribution houses come up with this? There’s a huge lack of imagination in distribution that means they miss out on ideas like this one, that can inject a bit of excitement for an audience craving new things outside of the mainstream.
Anyway, once there are many more mags, I want to be able to choose between the person selecting the mag. So I could get, say, Jeremy‘s selection for 3 months, then switch to Ralph and Sarah‘s, with a small note inside explaining their choices. Prediction: I foresee a tie-in between Stack and Distill. They’re made for each other.
Amelia’s Magazine has long been a reference point for the independent magazine world.
Founded in 2004, each book-thick issue has been painstakingly put together by a gang of talented interns, illustrators and Amelia herself, to the acclaim of fans around the world. And the latest issue, number 10 (now available to pre-order) is its last.
Though the pop-culture/fashion articles mixed with illustration (and occasional free stickers) have always made its pages distinctive, Amelia’s is probably best known for its cover innovations: scratch and sniff, encrusted with Swarovski crystals (before Harpers Bazaar did it), covered in flock, glow in the dark, printed on metallic foil (before Interview did it)… the last issue’s logo is covered in lime-green glitter, ending a visually striking sequence.
The website will apparently continue, but the print is no more. Though some have blamed the financial situation for its demise, in fact Amelia decided to stop at the beginning of the summer, before the credit crunch really hit. In a Magtastic blogsclusive, she shares stories of ongoing financial hardship, fighting mediocrity and why she always suspected that ten might be enough…
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