Just Zite It
Have you ever wished there was a magazine custom-tailored to your world? Well, a new app called Zite promises to create a personal magazine experience on your iPad, and you don’t have to do much at all.
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Apple’s Subscription Service – Is it a Good Thing?
Apple recently announced its plan to tack a 30 percent fee on to publishers who charge subscriptions through its App Store. These fees apply to magazines, books, newspapers, music and videos. Apple is also dictating that these publishers can’t offer their subscriptions elsewhere at a lower price, and the consumers will have the option to withhold to sharing their details — such as name or location — with the publisher.
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Opting Out
I’m a huge fan of print publications, that’s why I am in the editorial department, but is print the right way to go for everything? What about the Yellow Pages?
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All Covered Up
The pundits who keep saying that print magazines are dead obviously haven’t spent a lot of time at coverjunkie.com.
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Reality Gaming Gets Real
Sometimes art can imitate life. Take for example these photos taken for LIFE magazine.
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Apple Pie and Editorial Backlash
When Monica Gaudio published a recipe five years ago on a domain name that she owned and a piece she copyrighted, she was happy to share it with the few visitors to her blog. Five years later, a friend informed Gaudio that he saw her article published in Cooks Source magazine, a small western New England publication. Gaudio had never heard of the publication and never gave them her permission to publish her piece. She went to the magazine website and sure enough, her recipe was there.
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Designed to Spark Interest
When I saw the latest cover of Esquire magazine, I was immediately impressed.
“The Impossible” issue has done the impossible. -
Ranking the Top Typefaces
In the late 1990s, Paul Shaw, a letter designer and design historian, wrote an article about the top 100 typefaces of all time. The author’s list contained fonts that he described as having “historical, technological, or theoretical importance” and he crafted his list based on that criteria “rather than its aesthetics.” This week he updated his list with the top 10 typefaces from 2000 – 2010.
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How Influential Are You?
Fast Company, a magazine and website that empowers innovators to create the future of business, has recently begun a new experiment called The Influence Project. Its aim is to show what happens when your passive online audience is asked to act based on your suggestions. The result is a sleekly designed visualization of your online influence in action, ultimately locating the most influential person in the project.
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Getting Some Answers
Being a writer for many publications means a lot of interviews either by phone, email or in person. I never know what kind of interview subject I will get or how receptive they will be to what I would like to know.
Finding “the scoop” can prove difficult for some interviewers, because it all lies in the hands (or mind) of the interviewee. I’ve come to find some quick tips in coaxing the story out of subjects.story out of subjects.
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Print’s Answer to the iPad
Field & Stream is making a defiant challenge for the superiority of print. The editors have literally turned their magazine into a target, and made it interactive to boot! An inside page of the “gun nut” issue has been designed for target practice. The magazine asks readers to submit pictures of themselves shooting at the target page for the chance to win a gun.
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Magazine Readership Shows Growth
According to a report just released by GfK MRI (formerly Mediamark Research & Intelligence), magazine readership in the United States is slowly growing – a fact that is worthy of grand celebration in an industry often declared as “dead.”
How did your favorite magazines perform over the past year?