The COVID Bump – Making it Stick
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Publishers understand that getting someone to subscribe to their magazine is worth the effort. Subscriptions signify a deeper relationship to a brand than a newsstand purchase and create a habit that becomes a part of their lifestyle, something they look...
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Modern Meets Old School… and Everybody Wins
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Hey there, fancy. Yes, we’re talking to you SK Lorenzo, designed by Salih Kizilkaya. The serif double-weight decorative font design was inspired by the Baroque period and named after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the famous painters of that time....
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Read the Friendly Skies… from Home
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We’ve all heard that publishers need to adapt to their readers’ changing behaviors this year. And we’ve seen many good examples of this. Some publishers have been pivoting their content and coverage in real-time. Others are producing SIPs around the...
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The Facebook Ad Boycott… Good Intentions, Questionable Impact
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They made their point – loud and clear – and now what? Last month’s Facebook ad boycott, designed to force the social platform to better police their site for hate speech and disinformation, is waning. Some brands are coming back,...
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The Big Issue Gets a Lesson in Payback for their Good Work
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The Big Issue has made a name for itself in the publishing world for its commitment to helping the homeless and other vulnerable people in the UK. They do this through their network of vendors, many of whom are homeless...
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Two Free Fonts Perfect for a Hot Summer
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Summertime – and the living is sticky. It’s time to pare down to basics, eliminate the extras to keep cool. Leftonade, a free font created by Bulgarian designer Obreshko Obreshkov, fits the bill nicely. With smooth curves and lots of...
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British Vogue Helps Us All #Reset
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A breath of fresh air – that was the thinking behind the 14 different landscape covers gracing the August 2020 issue of British Vogue. The response has been tremendous. “I could never have expected this level of enthusiasm in the...
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Four Lads from Britain who Changed Magazines Forever
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They were four lads from the UK -- scrappy, charismatic, a bit odd, and dogged in their creative instincts. And they changed the face of their industry forever. No, we aren’t talking about those lads from Liverpool. We are talking...
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Toilet Paper, Hand Sanitizer… oh, and the Latest Bestseller
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Want to sell more books during a pandemic? One retail chain had a brilliant idea … stack them next to the toilet paper.According to Elizabeth A. Harris writing in the New York Times, books sales at big-box retailers jumped 20%...
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Bumble, a Magazine by Nature Lovers for Nature Lovers
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Not that Bumble, this Bumble. Bumble magazine (not to be confused with Bumble Mag, the print magazine for the Bumble dating app) recently released its fourth issue … with full-on Bambi doe eyes gracing the front cover. The magazine, according...
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