future of print
Building a new print magazine, newsletter first
Build a newsletter, develop a community and then print a mag.
magazines
Let print be print, and rejoice in its tactile nature
Magazines can thrive serving markets that are wary of screens, as long as they rejoice in their staus as physical objects
conde nast
Condé Nast giveth, and it taketh away
Condé Nast is moving fast and breaking its Snapchat presence.
Ello
Ello to launch a magazine: Not For Print
Ello, the social network you’ve forgotten about, is to launch its own magazine [https://ello.co/notforprint/post/notforprint_censorship]: > Not For Print will help bring the best of Ello into the real world with a tangible, show-it-off-on-your-coffee-table magazine featuring the art of 50 creators on Ello. And
consumer magazines
Un-Loaded
Private Frazer laments the troubled later life of Loaded [https://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/loaded-has-left-the-building/], rather than its recent demise: > Because the tawdry and constipated magazine that has just closed bears no relation (other than the title) to the original Loaded. Love it or loathe it, the
editors
When The Magazine nearly died
Interesting insight into The Magazine [http://www.marco.org/2014/06/23/elephant] and its (previously unknown, I believe) near-death experience: > Having a “built-in audience” from a 5by5 show, Tumblr, Instapaper, and Marco.org didn’t sustain The Magazine. I sold it because it was cratering under my ownership
consumer magazines
The future of Future?
Private Frazer on the fate of Future [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/back-to-future/]: > Future’s future apparently lies in “the virtuous circle of engagement in two core content areas: reviews (when consumers are looking to make product purchase decisions and where we can derive ecommerce revenues) and
germany
Now this is a magazine I want to read...
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/05/business-punk-3718.html] …pity I don’t speak German [http://www.business-punk.com]. Who says B2B has to be dull?
iPad
iPad Magazines: a predictable publisher road-crash
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/newsstand-again-3682.html] David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing [http://www.29.io] talking about magazine apps: > What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of
consumer magazines
That shovelware tablet edition might be killing your mag
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/country-walking-ipad-3514.html] Just came across this explanation of why hobby magazines no longer have broad appeal [http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/outdoor-magazines-have-they-had-their-day/009268/] , by a former editor of various outdoor magazine titles: > So why does someone with a long-term
adobe DPS
Magazines on tablets: publishers' painful lessons
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/adobe-digital-publishing-summit.jpg] This year was meant to be the year where I was deep in the production of tablet editions of various B2B mags. Life didn’t work out that way, but when I was offered the chance to
apple
About that iPad mag subscriptions panic
[http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/28/time-sports-illustrated]I saw a lot of buzz overnight about Apple not allowing magazine subscriptions on the iPad [http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100728/time-inc-s-ipad-problem-is-trouble-for-every-magazine-publisher/] , and OMG how is the iPad going to save us now? Steve, you have betrayed us! Except, well, that’s