It’s been a fascinating year for magazines.
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A little over a year ago, I told you all that I was starting an offshoot of UK-based independent magazine subscription club Stack. I called my new baby Stack America.
It’s been a great first year, sending out 14 different independent publications (listed below) with a total value of $132 to a passionate and ever-increasing subscriber base, as well as an exclusive Designers Series print in every mailing by luminaries including Jeremy Leslie, Robert Newman, and Richard Turley, plus an exclusive magmark by Read The Printed Word.
If you were wondering what to ask Santa for this year… there’s much, much more fun to come in 2011. I’ve already signed up a heavyweight list of top titles and fantastic bonus extras, all of which will make your jaw drop and your heart sing. It’s going to be a hell of a year – and all still at the same price, a mere $71.99 for a year of mailings to US-based addresses.
Even better than that, we’re celebrating all of this with a bumper Christmas offer: buy one year, get $10 off a six-month bonus subscription, for anyone who signs up before New Year’s Eve.
So when friends and family ask what you’d like to get for Christmas, tell them Stack America – a curated series of great independent magazines, exclusive magazine-themed prints, posters, print ephemera, sent to you throughout the year.
And then bag a discounted six-month subscription for someone else. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Over on the Stack blog, I just posted the latest edition of the Designers Series created by the design team at Bloomberg Businessweek. It is, quite simply, magnificent. And scabrously funny.
Usually I don’t share the Designers Series prints, which are images created by designers exçlusively for Stack America subscribers. However, to celebrate the completion of Stack America’s first year, this time I’ve made an exception.
Download it, share it, print it out, enjoy. Just don’t show Graydon Carter.
Also: we just released a special seasonal offer, valid until the end of 2010. Buy a year’s subscription to Stack America, get $10 off a bonus six-month subscription. Go here to read more.
A history of Apple tablets
It’s been a long time coming. Check out the Macintosh Folio, designed by Jonathan Ive
Opium100 needs your help
Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em laugh
Ann Summers releases Cosmo tie-in range
Because diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend. Men have to make do with Loaded’s Stamina Shot
Variety releases “slanguage” glossary
What the infopike has been waiting for
Lovely-looking new design mag launches
In an edition of only 100, sadly. Fortunately, its content is also here, and features many Magtastic Blogfavourites, including Jörg Koch and Mark Kiessling
Interview with Mono.kultur‘s Kai
The new issue is unsurprisingly gorgeous
Some Magazine looks interesting
Features unusual use of the comma,
Punk zine archive
Anarchy in the PDF
Put A Egg On It #3 announced
Lifetime subscriptions are available
Bidoun runs beautiful, individualised covers
They printed 5,000 copies, and stapled to the cover of each a photograph from a Cairo fleamarket
Stack America now offers six-month subscriptions
In case you need your independent magazine fix in smaller installments. Get ready for more seasonal offers from December 1st
Q: What do you get if you cross the internet and magazines?
A: Ivan Pope.
Pope is a former zinester who created the world’s first internet magazine, The World Wide Web Newsletter (later 3W Magazine), in 1993. He later went on to help launch the first consumer magazine about the web, .net, and also invented the cybercafé as part of an installation at the ICA in London.
He’s now turned his entrepreneurial zeal to creating Magazero, an online magazine store dedicated to “gathering the best, freshest, strangest, most inaccessible, juciest, loveliest independent magazines from around the world and bringing them into your life.”
Magtastic talked to him about the future of magazine selling, setting up a competitor to Stack, and the glory of the magazine ecosystem.
What made you want to set up an online magazine shop?
I’ve wanted to open a magazine shop for about fifteen years now. In the nineties, I had an internet business with an office in New York (domain names; I sort of invented that industry). I used to spend a lot of time there and one thing I loved were the magazine shops with floor to ceiling racks of every magazine you could imagine. I always thought it would be a great thing to open something similar in the UK.
Ten Things is a collection of magazines, thoughts and ephemera that have been sitting on my desk for a few months while I caught up with deadlines
Much praised elsewhere, there’s not much to add about the marvellous Kasino annual, other than its a lovely size and format, and contains all the dry wit and thoughtful quirkiness of their previous publication Kasino A4.
When I started Stack America, I wanted to add a few bonus extras into the mix. And so, I’m delighted to officially make public ‘The Designers Series’. Quite simply, it’s this: for each bimonthly Stack America mailing, we invite a magazine creative to make an exclusive print on the theme of ‘magazines’. And then we send it out along with our selection of remarkable independent mags.
Of course, Stack America subscribers already knew that, as last month they received an exclusive image made by Jeremy Leslie (yeah, that one). There’s a tiny square of it above. If you want to see the rest… well, you should have subscribed. Stack Original subscribers: you should also be getting it soon.
Meanwhile, my fellow Stack Americans, it is my honour to announce that next month’s mailing will include a really lovely, exclusive print by Robert Newman, former design director of New York, Fortune and Details. If you were thinking about subscribing before, surely that has tipped the scales. Also makes a lovely Valentine’s gift, you know.
(This is a cross-post with the Stack blog)
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