Magazine Wholesaler Asks Publishers to Pony Up
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“The newsstand business is going through a difficult transition.” That could be the understatement of the decade. And it’s especially telling when it’s uttered by someone whose company just raised rates on newsstand publishers. According to Tony Silber writing in...
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The magCulture View of Modern Magazine Publishing
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Jeremy Leslie has pretty strong feelings about the print magazine industry – and he’s not shy about sharing them.  The founder of the magCulture media brand recently stopped into the Stack offices in London to speak wtih Stack's Steve Watson...
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Why the Net’s Biggest Brands are So Into Print
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The world’s biggest internet brands -- Facebook, Google and Amazon -- have something new in common lately … and it might surprise the digital diehards out there. Question: What do Google, Facebook and Amazon – three of the world’s most...
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A Little Retro Edge for this Week’s Free Font Friday
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Finding the right font for a project is always a creative challenge. Then once in a while, you find a find and just know you have to find a way to use. That’s what I felt when I saw both...
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Hilarious Posters on the Fonts Everyone Loves to Hate
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To each his own.  “Every design project is unique and requires a typeface that matches the visual aesthetics and compliments the content,” notes this post from Digital Synopsis. “However, there are some typefaces that designers try to steer clear of,...
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This New Title Wants You to Please Go Away
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The story starts with one of the all-time great audio viruses from Rupert Holmes: “If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain If you´re not into yoga, if you have half a brain If you like making...
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Ask Your Advertisers if their Customers Trust Social Media
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I know we call out Facebook a lot around here – but they certainly aren’t the only social platform taking fire lately. “As this chart from Statista shows, the Cambridge Analytica scandal seems to have resulted in a broader loss...
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The New Rule in Indie Publishing? There Are No Rules
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A recent indie magazine exhibit in London sheds light on the history – and the future – of independent publishing. In a nutshell, they came, they published, they vanished, by the dozens. But in the process, they helped spawn a...
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