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Creative industries band together with statement on copyright opposing "fair use"

Some 45 organizations in Canada representing the creative industries have submitted a joint statement to the current federal consultation process on copyright reform, asking the government not to implement the concept of "fair use". The stance, not surprisingly, runs counter to the position taken by many of the advocates of fair use.The signatories include such magazine-related organizations as

These guys say our democracy is broken and they know how to fix it

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Two of Maclean's magazine's lead columnists -- Andrew Coyne (right) and Paul Wells -- say they know how to fix Canada's "broken democracy". One way is to square off in this week's issue of the magazine. Another is to hold a roundtable discussion with guests former NDP leader Ed Broadbent, former prime minister's chief of staff Eddie Goldenberg and author John Ralston Saul.The roundtable is at the

Fashion magazine gives away everything in its October issue

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Fashion magazine is giving away to readers everything featured in their October issue - from clothing to makeup -- between September 21st to October 16th. There’s quite the mass of excellent merch up for grabs; among the mass is a Dsquared dress, Pink Tartan skirt suit, Mackage coat and a buttload of designer makeup and hair care products.The main coverline of the shopping issue (isn't every

Research universities start own wire service to promote discoveries

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Concerned that journalistic coverage of science, medical and other discoveries is declining with the unhappy financial fortunes of traditional media, a group of 35 leading U.S. research universities have decided on an end run. According to a story in the Mercury News, they have formed their own nonprofit wire service, Futurity, to provide articles and information to the top news and social media

Wal-Mart, moving magazines to back of store, also reducing space and titles

Unknown 21:44 Circulation , newsstands , single copies

Not only is Wal-Mart moving magazines to the back of its stores, its "Project Impact" remodeling program will actually decrease the space devoted to magazines and reduce the number of authorized titles, based on profitability and sales. According to a story in Audience Development, the major magazine retailer is reducing mainline space by 20 feet -- about half of what it was previously -- which

Duncan Hood named editor of MoneySense, managing editor of Canadian Business

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[This post has been updated]Duncan Hood, formerly a senior editor at Maclean's, has been named to the double-barrelled job of editor of MoneySense magazine and a* managing editor of Canadian Business. Word came in a message to staff from publisher of all three magazines, Ken Whyte.[*Conan Tobias was the managing editor; now he is a managing editor.]His appointment to both jobs is consistent

The circulation promotion worked almost too well. Too bad about the premiums

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For the Conde Nast circulation boffins in Britain, there was good news and bad news. The good news was that their subscription promotion for House and Garden magazine went quite well, exceeding expectation by 50%. The bad news, according to a story in the Press Gazette, was that they ran out of the advertised premiums -- Molton Brown toiletries -- and tried substituting other things (in this

Traffic's up, page views are up, but where's the revenue for newspaper sites?

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Figures provided by the Newspaper Association of America indicate that there has been a 75% increase in unique audience U.S. newspapers' online sites. Which, says a story from MediaDailyNews, raises the question about whether or how newspapers could capitalize on this "spectacular growth".The story reports that active reach -- the measure of how many U.S. internet users viewed newspaper web sites

Is Best Health's U.S. cousin, Best You, toast?

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[This post has been updated]Not so long ago, a couple of months in fact, Reader's Digest Association Inc. was trumpeting its new publishing model, its efficiency and publishing savvy in launching Best Health in Canada and then all-but-cloning it for the U.S. market as Best You. RDA's president said the cost was far less than a traditional magazine launch. Since then, RDA (US) has gone into

Paid ad traffic management portal launched by BC publisher

Unknown 22:48 Advertising , production , software , traffic , web and print

[This post has been updated]Media Hill Publications Inc. of Burnaby, B.C. has announced the launch of AdSupplier.com an integrated online ad traffic management application designed to fit the needs of the small to mid-size magazine publisher.Billing itself as an “ad traffic management portal” AdSupplier’s features include: automated insertion order confirmations; email reminders of approaching

Launch party for Vancouver's Sad Mag will be anything but

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This Thursday, in Vancouver, there's a launch of a brand new local arts and cultural magazine called Sad Mag, which seems to be a misnomer.In fact, it seems like a joyous celebration of the writers and artists of Vancouver. Here's what could well pass for the magazine's mission statement:We wanted to tell beautiful stories in rich, vibrant language that made Vancouver’s most interesting

Why staffers at Condé Nast have good reason to worry

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People are magazines' most important asset and their most expensive element, which is why there has been significant nervousness in the hallways of Condé Nast (Vogue, New Yorker, W, GQ, Self, Glamour, Brides, Gourmet, Wired, Vanity Fair etc. etc.) The company, which publishes among the most prestigious magazines around, last summer brought in the consultants, McKinsey and Company, to nose around

Finalists named in Canadian Online Publishing Awards

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The 75 finalists in each of 10 categories in two divisions have been announced in the first annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards, produced by MastheadOnline. Among magazines in the consumer, custom, religious, public association category:Overall best magazine websiteBC Business OnlineCanadian LivingGreen LivingHouseandhome.comThe Hockey NewsThe United Church ObserverTorontolife.comUp Here

Parsing Ontario's legal aid boycott

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This Magazine's blog has published a post by Kim Hart Macneill about the Ontario legal aid boycott that told me some things I didn't know, or may have missed elsewhere. One was making the comparison between the 15% fee increase that legal aid had received over the past 22 years and the fact that Crown attorneys have received a 57% wage increase in the past 10 years. Another was the huge number of

Global Brief magazine finds new home, renewed hope

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The reports of the death of Global Brief magazine were exaggerated, it seems. The world affairs magazine's very first issue was caught up in a welter of rumour when, right after it published, kabillionaire Jim Balsillie pulled the plug on it.An article in the Globe and Mail suggested that the Canadian International Council, which Balsillie chairs, was startled by the cost of producing the lavish

Those staffers? They'll be gone by Christmas

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The brutality of the magazine business these days is evidenced by the way in which BusinessWeek staff found out about massive layoffs -- they read about it in a story in the New York Times, based on an offering memorandum from the magazine's owner McGraw-Hill to potential buyers. According to a post on the Silicon Valley Insider, Stephanie Clifford of the Times got her hands on the memo from

Maclean's AD Dewairy takes over Canadian Business, MoneySense & Profit

Unknown 17:58 art direction , Maclean's , Rogers

The recent consolidation of management and staff dismissals at Rogers Publishing's news and business consumer group proceeds apace, as Christine Dewairy, the art director of Maclean's, takes over responsibility for Canadian Business, MoneySense and Profit magazines. This means the four publications share one publisher and one art director. According to a story in Mastheadonline, Dewairy will do

Quality counts, not just in editorial, but in customers

Unknown 15:30 Circulation , subscriptions

Within recent memory, circulators were bedevilled by publishers who wanted more subscribers, period. It didn't matter who they were, or what quality; the company strategy was pinned on getting a lot of them and then charging advertisers for access to them. As a result, magazine databases became bloated with marginal customers who didn't really care about them and who had to be bribed to subscribe

Better Farming magazine field editor wins two major farm writing awards

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A London, Ontario journalist who is a field editor for the magazine Better Farming, has won two prestigious awards from this year’s Canadian Farm Writers’ and Broadcasters’ awards competition.Mary Baxter was awarded the Jack Cram gold award for monthly press reporting and the Dick Beamish silver award for press feature. The awards were announced at the federation's annual conference, held this

Canadian Newsstand Awards to be announed October 7 at CMC reception

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The winners of the eighth annual Canadian Newsstand Awards/Grand prix d’excellence en kiosque will be announced on Oct. 7 as part of the annual social of the Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC). The reception will be held at Spice Route located at 499 King Street West, Toronto, beginning at 5 p.m. and the awards presentation is at 6 p.m. CMC members are free; all others $10 at the

Quote, unquote: on being in a funny, interesting, playful, scary place

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I think any smart editor is well aware that they’re in a business that is partly about permanence and partly about disposability. We’re sort of in the middle. Newspapers were much more disposable. They came in one day and they’re gone. Magazines are in 30 days and maybe you file them away, but how often do you really go back to them? So you’re in this funny place between the tactile object and

Magazine world view

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TV Guide to chop rate based by more than 30% (New York Post)How the Financial Times gets readers to pay (Columbia Journalism Review)Slate founding editor Kinsley tapped by Atlantic (Folio:)Reader's Digest Association announces business realignment (Folio:)Speculation of closing world's oldest Sunday newspaper said "not accurate" (Guardian)Circulation-boosting editors head BSME shortlist (Guardian

Ad preflight portal has signed up 90 titles

Unknown 15:31 advertisers , Advertising , prepress , production

More than 90 magazines have signed up for AdDirect™, Magazines Canada’s web-based magazine ad preflight and delivery portal, launched last month. The service, which was launched in July, automatically validates client PDF ad files against your own unique publishing specifications and instantly delivers them to you, print-ready, along with an automatic digital notification that the ad file is

Audio podcasts about magazine business launched by Magazines Canada

Unknown 13:36 magazine business , podcasts , professional development

Magazines Canada is launching a series of audio podcasts called Audiomag, related to key magazine issues. The first, available now, features Paul Rossi, North American publisher of The Economist and a speaker at MagNet 2009. He talks about how he doubled his newsstand sales in just over one year.In future,there will be episodes fromAnthony Licata, Editor of Field & Stream, on how to keep service

Neither borrowers nor lenders

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Hell in a handcart dept: The city of Philadelphia is closing all of its libraries October 2. Funds were cut off by the Pennsylvania legislature. Nobody can borrow a book after September 3o.The first free library in the U.S was started there by Benjamin Franklin.

Dimensional typography -- moving out of flatland

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For all type dweebs there's a long essay in eye weekly eye magazine on dimensional typography. It is full of paragraphs like this one:These dimensional projects stretch the definition of graphic design. They add fresh substance to the decades-old debate about whether the moniker ‘graphic’ design is appropriate to what we do. This dimensional typography highlights novel twists on design processes,

Departed indie bookstore Pages to be documentarized

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For those who were interested in the lamentable closing of Pages bookstore, you may be equally interested that a documentary film is being made about it. [h/t to BlogTO]

Green Living launches guide to shopping, eating and living green in Toronto

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Green Living magazine is launching an editorial digest-sized directory of more than 375 sustainable stores and services in the Toronto area. Green Living Guide will be published September 14 concurrently with the next issue of the magazine, but will be available at participating retailers across the city.The magazine has already had online guides for Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto, but

Time Inc. pondering whether to launch its own e-reader

Unknown 17:55 digital , e-readers , Journalism Online , web and print

Time Inc. is apparently considering creating its own e-reader, in competition with the Kindle by Amazon and others. According to a story on an NBC website, an internal memorandum suggests that the company has radically shifted its attitude towards the technology. The document is a printout of a slide presentation, complete with handwritten notes.The Time Inc. presentation, titled "New Platforms

Wordstock explores tools for a new universe

Unknown 17:31 conferences , professional development , seminars

The annual Wordstock conference, sponsored by the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association, is on Saturday October 3 in Toronto, with the theme "Journalism tools in the new universe."Wordstock is about broadly-based journalism (newspapers and other media), not just magazines, but this year's sessions are bound to be of interest to anyone who writes, edits and publishes. And a couple of well known

In Style magazine uses 3-D to enhance holiday gift guide

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Although, to me, it seems like something that readers might find only fleetingly interesting, In Style magazine has created a December holiday gift guide using “augmented reality” technology to make some advertisements three dimensional. As a story in Folio: describes it:The initiative, called Gifting in 3-D, generates a three dimensional gift box on readers’ computer screens when they log online

Pages praised for being "hyper-local" and "human scale"

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Spacing magazine posted on its blog a nice "afterword" about the event this week that marked the passing of one of Toronto's (and Canada's) best independent book and magazine stores, Pages. The tribute is made more poignant by the facts about how important such an outlet has been to indy magazines like Spacing. Pages was special to us because the store embodied everything we like about the city

Audience Development to be quarterly

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Audience Development magazine, the monthly magazine which only last year rebranded itself from Circulation Management, is to become a quarterly starting in the 2010, it has been announced by Red7Media.This fall, only two issues will appear. The magazine, which has been considered a very important resource to circulators in both the U.S. and Canada, will continue to develop its online offerings

BC arts cuts said to take province back to "prehistoric" levels

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A column in the Georgia Straight brings into sharp relief the drastic nature of the cuts that the BC government is imposing on arts and culture that has small magazine publishers in the province reeling. Ellen Woodsworth, a community activist who is seeking to be a candidate for deputy mayor of Vancouver city council under the COPE municipal party, says in her commentary, in partBefore the cuts,

Wal-Marts move magazines to the back of the store

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Wal-Mart stores are in the midst of a major and significant remodeling program called "Project Impact" that will shift magazines to the entertainment department at the back of stores. Folio: magazine reports that about 650 stores are adopting the new floor-plan. The chain, best known for discounting titles and often being one of the biggest newsstands in many towns, says the change is the result

Recycled paper gets special displays for some U.S. magazines

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Barnes & Noble stores in the U.S. are in the second year of featuring magazines that use recycled paper in special magazine racks in over 240 of their largest stores. The project is being done in partnership with Green America’s Better Paper Project. Since the project started, 46 magazines have taken part.The ten magazines participating in this month’s promotion include: Tricycle, Mother Jones,

Report on Mining spawns three digital magazines

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Report on Mining, a 12-year-old magazine published by Fusion Publishing Inc. of Vancouver for the investment community, has spun off three digital magazines. They are Report on Cleantech, Report on Oil and Gas and Report on Mining.Report on Mining will continue as a print publication, circulating 25,000 copies to high end investors, brokers, analysts, hedge fund managers and government officials

The Walrus magazine receives $225,000 funding boost to help pay writers

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The Slaight Family Foundation has committed $225,000 ($75,000 per year for three years) to create the Allan Slaight Writers Fund inside the Walrus Foundation to support writers at The Walrus magazine.While very pleased with the funding, which will all go to pay writers, co-publisher Shelley Ambrose cautions that the magazine still has some way to go in its fundraising -- it spends $400,000 per

Boycott of Ontario legal aid cases only hurts the vulnerable, editor says

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A boycott of the Ontario legal aid system by the Canadian Lawyers Association hurts those who need good legal representation most, according to Melissa Kluger, the editor of Precedent magazine, a publication for younger lawyers distributed throughout Ontario.Our criminal justice system only works if everyone who travels through it receives fair treatment under the law — no matter what they earn,

Times may be tough for BusinessWeek, but 93 potential buyers have emerged

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Times may be tough, but there's a lot of interest in solid properties and magazine brands; at least that seems to be the case when BusinessWeek magazine gets expressions of interest from 93 potential buyers, according to a story in Bloomberg.com. The parent company, McGraw-Hill, started shopping the magazine when ad sales fell 33 per cent in the first half, compared with 21% industry wide.“

New magazine in Saskatoon highlights narrative illustration

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Three people in Saskatoon have started a new magazine called Vehicle: the anthology of contemporary narrative. At first glance, it's a high-end comic book, but inside it's something of a combination of a comic, graphic novel and pulp magazine of the '50s like Weird Tales and Astounding Stories. It's intended to provide an outlet for people to tell their stories in a number of different ways.One

OptiMYz magazine says fitness club takeover is good publishing news

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Max Brennan, the publisher of OptiMYz magazine in Halifax, says that the purchase of the Nubody's fitness clubs by the GoodLife fitness chain is good news for his magazine. According to an item in the Chronicle-Herald, GoodLife founder the CEO David Patchell-Evans is interested in possible expanding the publication, which is now in its 26th year.The magazine was distributed to Nubody members as

T.O. Night mag-style evening paper launches in Toronto

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Toronto will see a new evening daily paper starting today. Commuters will be handed 100,000 copies of T.O. Night between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at locations around the business core, according to a story in CBC.ca. The glossy, magazine-style "freesheet" will rely on wire stories, but is partnering with BlogTO for additional local coverage. "We wouldn't dare launch another paper in the morning —

24 Hours redesigned with new logo, new type, new colours

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Sun Media Corporation has redesigned and reorganized its magapaper 24 Hours; its new look is in the boxes today (Tuesday 8th). According to a release from the company, the facelift has new fonts, new colours and a new logo."We have decided to revamp 24 Hours to continue to meet and exceed our readers' expectations. The redesigned product will provide our readers with all the information and

Reed business division hopes to get half its total revenue from digital in 3 years

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The business division of Reed Elsevier is hoping to get half of its total revenue from digital, online publications within the next three years. According to a story in Press Gazette, Reed Business Information (RBI) reported half-year operating revenue of £463m.RBI publishes more than 80 b2b titles such as New Scientist, Publishers Weekly and Variety. In Canada, the company has a number of

Magazines Canada site grows 29% in views

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Interest in the Canadian magazine industry is demonstrated by the 29% increase in page views on the Magazines Canada site (magazinescanada.ca) with 1.8 million so far this year, 400,000 more than the same time last year. (The consumer portion of the site consumer website attracted over 500,000 page views.) Only 10% of visitors came from a search engine, with 65% either coming via a bookmark or

Magazine gets a new name every month -- its cover subject

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There have been magazines named after their city, after their founders, after their topic, even after their typeface but now, a monthly guide from Luxembourg, City Magazine, is changing its name to that of the cover star every issue. The first issue features illustrator/entrepreneur Estelle Sidoni, who is interviewed at the start of the issue. [Thanks to magCulture for this.]

Canadian Freelance Union announces Toronto meeting

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The Canadian Freelance Union is holding a meeting this coming Friday, September 11 at 7 p.m. in Toronto; a sort of preliminary to the formal, inaugural meeting of members next month.That formal inaugural meeting is scheduled for October 3 and -- to be done virtually, using webcast and online forums -- will be when the charter members elect the union's first national executive and pass the

TFEW tops 400 members

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Congratulations to the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers list, which has just crested 400 members. TFEW runs as a plain vanilla e-mail exchange and the often lively threads about topics including getting paid as a freelancer, the finer (if obscure) points of grammar, movies, music, books you name it has apparently caught a lot of attention. The list started over 10 years ago with a meeting in

Time Inc. suspends Time Style & Design

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Time Inc. has "suspended" its Time Style & Design fashion quarterly. It comes on the eve of Fashion Week in New York. The reason given? The collapse of the luxury market in the current recession. "This really is a suspended publication," said a spokeswoman of the one million-circulation magazine. "We'd hope to bring it back when the economy improves."According to a posting by Keith Kelly in the

The Economist offers custom home delivery with a newsstand price

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The Economist has introduced a trial program in New York City that allows people who have signed up for weekly e-mail alerts on their cellphones about what's in the next edition and have it home-delivered overnight at the newsstand price.According to a story in Advertising Age, the approach was tested successfully in Britain two months ago, but with a simpler interface -- people who were

La Presse threatens to stop publishing Dec. 1 unless it gets major concessions

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Montreal's largest broadsheet newspaper, La Presse, has told its staff they have until December 1 to allow for major cost cutting or the paper will close. Among the concessions the company is demanding is the end of a four-day work week and the cutting of up to 100 jobs.La Presse is the flagship newspaper of Gesca Ltee, a wholly owned division of Power Corp. The last collective agreement at the

Harper's Bazaar magazine skips 39 folios

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Powerful ammunition for those of us who promote the virtues of those vital behind-the-scenes workers -- good copy editors, fact-checkers, production people and proofreaders.The current issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine has 39 pages missing, as folios jump from 256 to 295. An embarrassing flub. No suggestion that they pulled any content.

Futura to Verdana: Ikea stirs up designers by switching fonts after 60 years

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"Look, I know this isn't world hunger. But if a company like Ikea can make this mistake, you have to wonder who is going to lead when it comes to design."-- Romanian designer Marius Ursache, who was so incensed about the furniture chain's decision to drop its ubiquitous customized Futura font in favour of Verdana, he started an online petition in protest. See the Time.com story.

Michael Jackson death coverage a $67 million windfall for U.S. magazine titles

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The death of pop star Michael Jackson was worth $67 million to the magazine business, including $55 million from tribute editions alone. This figures reflects only U.S. based titles, so revenues accruing to such Canadian titles as Maclean's and Hello! would add to that figure.The data came from the Magazine Information Network, often called MagNet, which tracks wholesale and retail magazine

Some gambling grants restored, but B.C. magazines and other arts groups bitter and confused

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[This post has been updated] The B.C. government has backed down, in part, on cuts to gambling-revenue grants to arts groups, including magazines, made in Tuesday's provincial budget, acknowledging that three year funding commitments had been made. The cuts were announced as part of a cost-saving strategy to reduce discretionary grants by $354 million this year across the

Magazine world view

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Mencken American magazine work featured in exhibit in John Hopkins library in BaltimoreContrix Inc. to launch ‘Pay As You Go’ online magazine sub service (Audience Development)American Apparel squeezed over ‘Inappropriate’ ad in Vice (Folio:)Information commissioner defends lack of journalist privacy prosecutions (Guardian)Hearst to launch customizable beauty site (Audience Development)Cooking

Quebec magazine Summum condemned for article on suicide information sources

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A Quebec magazine, Summum, has provoked major controversy by publishing a story in its September issue that gave leads to websites where people could learn how to commit suicide.The editor is unapologetic, according to a story circulated on the CanWest News Service, contending that the intention of the article was to denounce the fact that so many websites give out information on how to kill

Popular Science for paying e-readers proves to be a hard sell, even at 99 cents

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. Popular Science, which earlier this year launched a paid digital edition called the Genius Guide for e-readers, in anticipation of a large public interest, is scrapping the notion, at least as a paid vehicle. According to a posting on MediaWeek, readers were lukewarm to the idea.Publisher Gregg Hano originally hoped to get 900,000 downloads for the first

Straitened Esquire goes with double issue and 30% cover price hike

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The growing magazine trend to turning down the screws on costs and seeking new revenue sources is evidenced by Esquire magazine's plans to reduce its frequency next year, albeit by the time-worn device of a "double issue" covering June and July. According to a posting on FishbowlNY, the magazine is also increasing its cover price in 2010 by 30% (to US$4.99) and it is soon to launch an iPhone app

LouLou magazine celebrates 5th anniversary by giving away $10,000 in prepaid Visa cards

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LouLou magazine is celebrating its five-year anniversary by giving away $10,000 in Visa prepaid cards. The September issues of the French and English editions of LouLou feature a mock Visa card on the magazine cover, with a corresponding contest page. Readers can register at LouLou5th.com for their chance to win.In addition, the shopping magazine, published by Rogers, is having a "block parties"

Amazon wants courts to quash Google settlement on digitization of books

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Amazon.com Inc. has asked the U.S. District Court to annul Google Inc.'s copyright settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, claiming it is anticompetitive. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, the Amazon action says the agreement would increase how much consumers pay for digital books and undermine Congress's role in amending copyright law to

Best Health magazine teams with Sympatico to provide health and fitness content

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Best Health magazine, published by Readers Digest Canada, is partnering with the web portal Sympatico.ca to provide its health and fitness section. Besthealthmag.ca content has been progressively integrated into Sympatico.ca (owned by Bell Canada) since the beginning of August and, according to a Best Health press release, there have been 1.5 million visits in the first three weeks. A tab on the

Canadian Business Press calls for federal fairness in funding

Unknown 18:59 Canada Periodical Fund , Canadian Business Press , funding

The Canadian Business Press, which represents about 119 b2b, trade and farm titles published by 46 companies, has asked the federal government to completely overhaul its support to the Canadian magazine industry to ensure that the business and trade press gets its fair share of funding. In its 2009 pre-budget submission to the Commons' standing budget committee on finance, the CBP

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Rogers acquires French-language marketing magazine AMPQ

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Rogers Publishing has bought AMPQ magazine, thereby giving Marketing magazine a French-language counterpart for coverage of the advertising, marketing and communications industries. AMPQ is published 10 times a year and read by more than 58,000 marketing and communications professionals. Aside from the print magazine, AMPQ maintains AMPQ.com, produces a daily e-newsletter, AMPQ Quotidien

Spacing publisher to lead Globe forum on bicycle safety in wake of tragic incident

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Spacing magazine publisher Matt Blackett has been tapped by the Globe and Mail to moderate an online conversation about safety and cycling in the city. Of course it is prompted by the arrest (and, now, serious charges) of former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant for a fracas that resulted in the death of cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard on Bloor Street in Toronto.The incident is by turns

Departing Masthead editor says Maclean's has become Canada's most interesting magazine

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In what is essentially his swan song as editor of Mastheadonline (he leaves his post on Friday 4th to go to teacher's college), Marco Ursi has written a hymn of praise to Maclean's magazine and its publisher/editor Ken Whyte. His occasional "From the Editor's Desk" column says Maclean's has become Canada's most interesting magazine and points out that Whyte-driven covers have built up weekly

RDA sold its World Almanac division

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In one of the things it tidied up just before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, Reader's Digest Association sold its World Almanac and Book of Facts to New York-based Infobase Publishing. According to a story in Folio:, As part of the transaction, Infobase acquired The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids and The World Almanac Book of Records. Earlier

Border Crossings magazine launches new size, new face

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Border Crossings magazine has launched its September issue with a new, larger format and a new typeface . The Winnipeg-based magazine has increased in size to 9 x 11.75", with the larger size allowing even more latitude for the visuals that the arts magazine is well-known for. The new-look magazine is on the newsstands now. The new look will be celebrated with a launch party at McNally Robinson

Wallow in covers with searchable site

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A friend has pointed us to a fun and fascinating resource -- a site called Cover Browser, that was created in 2006 and has more than 450,000 searchable covers of comic books, pulp magazines and magazine covers for mavens to explore.It's fun regardless of whether you see them as historical artifacts or reference for magazine design or just general interest. Even more amazing, the searchability is

Deadline looms for lunatic writers to enter 3-Day Novel Contest

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There's only four more days to register to spend your Labour Day weekend madly hammering out a novel. Paid registration f0r the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest must be in the mail by Friday, September 4 (along with the $50 entry fee). Participants in Vancouver can drop off entries up until 7 p.m. Then hundreds of writers all over the world will begin writing their novels, which

Controversial Canadian-made ad nominated for Creative Media Awards

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Starcom MediaVest Group has received four nominations for its media work with clients Kraft Canada and Proctor and Gamble in the 2009 Creative Media Awards, sponsored by MediaPost Communications. One of these nominations was for controversial ad that some felt breached industry ad:editorial guidelines. The ad, for Kraft's Tassimo coffee machine, appeared in Style at Home magazine last

Canada Style bonus issue to be published by Flare

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To help celebrate its 30th anniversary year, Flare magazine has announced it is publishing a bonus "portrait" issue called Canada Style -- featuring fashion and beauty trendsetters and 30 influential and inspiring Canadian women. The 64-page bonus issue has a single sponsor, P & G Beauty (Pantene, Olay, CoverGirl and Clairol etc.) , and will be polybagged with Flare's October issue on newsstands

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