I don’t know if I’m like most people in this, but despite being a magazine editor, I almost never look at the Table of Contents when I open a magazine. Today, however, the newest issue of Esquire opened to the contents when I flipped it open, and I couldn’t help noticing much the same layout [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Creative table of contents from Esquire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged design, esquire, indesign, magazine, quark on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wal-Mart gets rid of over 1,000 magazine titles.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The supergiant retailer, which is apparently responsible for around 20% of all magazine sales in the United States, will cease carrying many magazine titles commonly found in their stores. Among these are Forbes and The New Yorker (I can’t imagine the Wal-Mart crowd reading that anyway).
How cell phones can save books
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to an article in Computerworld, releasing books in cell phone format (much as they apparently do in Japan) might be one of the best ways to save books. I personally can’t see it taking off.
The article is also worth looking at merely for some of its links, such as this one to an article [...]