Free Font Friday…Still Going!
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Okay, this week we’ve got two interesting picks. Free font Fridays are still going strong and this week’s choices are solid. STILU is a family of sans serif typefaces with a decidedly friendly point of view. While it may be...
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Cincinnati and the Cult of Print Books
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Here’s a fact that took me by surprise: Cincinnati has more bookstores per capita than San Francisco. And, “we’re tied with Seattle at seventh among America’s Most Literate Cities, according to a 2014 study by Central Connecticut State University,” writes Julie...
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Captain Obvious and the Magazine Industry News
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Joe Berger’s got a good rant going. He goes on at length about the need to up the bar on news coverage of the magazine industry in a recent blog post. “News reports about newsstand sales fascinate me,” he writes....
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An Ode to the Beauty of White Spaces
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How do you want your readers to experience your publication’s content? That’s the key question that a managing editor needs to ask before each issue, according to the folks at Picante Publications in their article “Magazine Design and the Beauty...
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The One Huge Takeaway from the 2016 MPA Numbers
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Overall, magazine media publishers had a great year in 2016. According to the folks at Marketing Charts who cited MPA figures from last year, magazine audiences “grew by 6.4% year-over-year in 2016, exceeding 1.7 billion.” Of that audience, print and...
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Print is Up, E-books are Down — the 2016 UK Book Sales Figures
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For many readers, nothing beats a print book. And while it might be tempting to call it “old-fashioned,” the younger generation is driving the sales of printed books. “More than 360m books were sold in 2016 – a 2% jump...
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1,000 Issues and Still Going Strong
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It’s a milestone any title would be proud of: 1,000 issues in print. For Steve George of Model Railroader, it’s proof positive that a passionate and connected audience will stick with you. “In many ways, specialized interest has been around...
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3 Hots Topics in the Magazine Media Landscape
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Digital ad revenue; the evolving B2B business model; and the aim to resolve the mission versus margin gap in association publishing: These, according to Folio’s Tony Silber, are the three key issues defining magazine media today. 1. Digital Ad Doldrums...
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Eye on the Prize in Graphic Design
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To have and to hold; according to Steve Heller writing in Print Mag, that is the penultimate value of a printed title. Heller has worked on the team at Eye for almost 20 years now and feels no apologies are...
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On a Quest to Pitch You Some Cool Free Fonts
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Fonts – love 'em, gotta have 'em, and we are committed to our ongoing quest to pitch you our Free Font Friday posts. Pitch Display by Kate Wiliwinksa is a condensed modern serif with a geometric feel, making it ideal...
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