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Searching for a little insight on the current magazine industry? Look no further. Through interviews, profiles and a few observations, you'll get my latest analysis on our ever-changing magazine world.

[ July 30, 2006 ]

A View from Across the Pond
In the early days newspaper used to mean just that: news on paper; now that has become an oxymoron. With advances in technology, newspapers are unable to keep up with the Internet and even text messaging.(Read more...)

Interactivity
Gone are the days of receiving a magazine in your mailbox, flipping through it during the evening and retiring it to the coffee table. Magazines are growing to understand that to be truly successful and achieve the status of a need as opposed to a want, they must become more interactive than they have been in the past. (Read more...)

Ultra-Specialization
On Wednesday, the Columbus Dispatch carried a feature article that reiterated what I have been saying about magazines for years: general interest titles are a thing of the past and niche based publications are the golden child of our industry. (Read more...)

Foreign Visitor
With over 400 pages and a cover price approaching $30, Widerstand is not for the passive reader. This German special from the publishers of Qvest is small on copy and big on artistic and striking glossy photography. (Read more...)

Husni's Double Vision...or Triple, or Quadruple
Collectible covers are becoming all the rage, luring many readers (including yours truly) back to the newsstand for content they actually already have. (Read more...)



 

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