Unstressed » magazines http://linebreak.org/blog A weblog from the editors of Linebreak Sun, 08 May 2011 07:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 What’s wrong with the magazine business http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/12/21/whats-wrong-with-the-magazine-business/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/12/21/whats-wrong-with-the-magazine-business/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:32:15 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=1516 John C. Abell, bureau chief for Wired.com, runs down the scammy subscription practices of print magazines.

I made the mistake of picking up a magazine in Barnes & Noble over the weekend, showering both my feet and the floor in subscription cards. Do people actually mail those silly things in?

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It’s interesting to think about Pictory in the context of a magazine, because, while some people will call it an online magazine, in reality it is something else entirely — something new that we don’t have a word for yet. Innovative sites that bill themselves as online lit journals have the same problem. They’re not journals at all — and the use of old labels muddies our thinking.

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The Monocle Review’s 2nd Edition includes a report on a long-standing Beirut bookshop struggling to survive amidst political instability and changing tastes.

The review is a new video production from Monocle Magazine, a fantastic (and exquisitely beautiful) source for international news on business, culture, and design. Each issue is as thick as a book and includes an exclusive manga series. I read it religiously, although I suspect I fall short of its target demographic by about $75,000 per year.

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