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Future Imperfect 9 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
I’d promised myself not to do it. Here I am sunning myself on the lovely Isle of Barra, where the temperature has climbed to a balmy 14 degrees, so I shouldn’t be playing with yon interweb. Plus, it’...
Unpicked 29 Jul 2013 | 05:43 pm
Dirty Des has unplugged TV Pick after just five months, after the price war it initiated failed to grind out sufficient market share from Bauer and IPC’s TV listings weeklies for it to be sustainable....
Don’t Panic! (09/07/13) 9 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
This is about the time that circulation managers are polishing up their returns to send off to the ABC and if the recent retail trends are anything to go by, there will need to be an interesting range...
Rending garments 8 Jul 2013 | 01:45 pm
It appears that budgets are being worn a little tighter this year over at Immediate Media as they’ve just taken the pinking shears to Cloth magazine. An announcement on their Twitter feed says that th...
World of Wonder 4 Jul 2013 | 05:56 pm
When Bauer launched Wonderpedia magazine last May they made a big deal of the “£1 million launch campaign”. Of course they didn’t spend anywhere near a million quid, but whatever was spent seemed to h...
Given the boot 2 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
According to FeaturesExec, RAS Publishing have closed Fashion Extras magazine (formerly Footwear and Fashion Extras) Because print is so last year dahling.
Done Deal 24 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
That curious smell of Bostick wafting around Peterborough is because Bauer have despatched Horse Deals magazine to the knackers yard. (Although keep it quiet, the staff think it’s gone to live on a f...
Freemium Lunch Over? 24 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
One of the few apparent ‘success’ stories of publishing in the past few years has been ‘freemium’ (or, to give it the correct term ‘free’) product. These are the mags pressed into your hands by be-an...
Blue remembered bills 18 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
More news on Blue Publishing who, until recently, were the publishers of Superbike and Loaded magazines. They’d acquired these from Vitality Publishing (which went bust in 2012) who, in turn, had boug...
Sport’s Games 16 Jun 2013 | 11:16 pm
Ping! An anonymous email arrives at the bothy (click here if you ever want to contact Private Frazer) with the obviously totally false, baseless and scurrilous allegation that “UTV Media are seriously...
