Dear Cover Design Team…We Need to Talk
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Joe Berger has a request. Okay, make that a plea. An impassioned plea. “Why won’t you let someone from the newsstand in on the cover design meetings?” he asks in this recent blog post. “Why don’t you accept some of...
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Shut Up & Take My Money to Launch in Print
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In an effort to differentiate themselves in the luxury product market, Australian independent publisher D’Marge is turning its weekly blog Shut Up & Take My Money into a 160-page print magazine. “The magazine will be published twice a year and...
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A Profit-Centric Look at Content Marketing 
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If you’re not making money from your content marketing, you’re doing it wrong. Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi is clear on that point. “Marketing, in its truest form, was meant to be a profit center,” he explains in a recent...
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The Perfect Free Font to Go Big and Take Home
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Need to go big, with posters, magazine covers or other large-size projects? Inspired by Garamond legacy, Cormorant is a display font by Christian Thalmann that has been optimized for high resolution and large sizes. With its razor sharp serifs and smooth...
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The Colors of Life Turned into Pantone Art
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If my mother ever met Italian graphic designer Andrew Antoni, I believe she would enjoy some of these beautiful destinations. “Italian graphic designer Andrea Antoni searches the world for Pantone colors, reminding us to embrace the colorful nature of our...
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“Easy” is not a Good Measuring Stick for Effective Marketing
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“Don’t let the lack of time or the boundaries of a comfort zone completely dictate your marketing strategy.” This solid advice comes from Victor Clarke of Clarke Print | Web | Digital. After all, since when is fast, cheap and...
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Trust, Quality and Magazines’ Saving Grace
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Dorothy Kalins has seen a thing or two in her successful 20+ years in the magazine business. The former executive editor at Newsweek, and now founding editor of Saveur, she’s seen a massive change in the industry.Yet during all the...
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Why 100% Paper Recycling Will Never Happen
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“Today, paper is the most recycled material on the planet,” explains this post from the Domtar Newsroom,” and despite already reaching record high levels, the push is on to reach the maximum practical paper recovery rate of 80 percent. Why...
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The One Thing Small Publishers Can’t Do on the Newsstand
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One industry analyst believes that those deep subscription discounts are bad news, especially for smaller publishers.As the always-intriguing D. Eadward Tree pointed out last summer, there’s one thing that most everybody gets wrong about the newsstand.“There are many reasons to...
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Chart of the Week: Magazine Ads are Most Liked of All Media
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Luxury brands know the score. So do big brands like Proctor & Gamble. And consumers have made their preference loud and clear with their massive adoption of ad blocking technology.Now Kantar Research is the latest source to confirm what is...
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