News from the magosphere 15th December ’08

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.