Category — Magazines

Seriously when will this end? I have never had so many ends to magazine subscriptions,  I have about 3 subscriptions to some travel magazine because of the end of Portfolio, Domino, Business 2.0, god the list goes on..

Now Gourmet Magazine..I just subscribed actually which is ironic. Mostly because of the PBS show they have on Sunday’s based off the magazine which I love now..It’s one of many that I have collected since the start of receiving that first glossy cover of something I would drool over..

Jay Rayner, one of the judges on the Top Chef Master’s show, wrote an article in the Guardian about the end of Gourmet..

Gourmet magazine to close

Facebook Page for Gourmet Magazine

Los Angeles Times article on the closing

Gawker’s response - The Wrath of McKinsey: Conde Nast To Fold Gourmet, Three Others

I used to work at Folio: - the magazine about the magazine industry -and now and then the editor asks for comments for the yearly predictions list from anyone that’s willing to share…I wrote this back in july 2008.

I’m just waiting to be right on one of them..

NAME: Paola DiMeglio
TITLE: Art director, CMP
SECOND HALF PREDICTION: Sean “Puffy,” “Diddy” Combs will launch his own Trump-like magazine called “White” (to go with his Hamptons/white party theme) … There will be more launches of a Gay/Lesbian Wedding Magazines in light of the new marriage laws … ”Green issues” of magazines will actually be printed on recycled paper and someone will actually use paper with implanted seeds for that “green” effect … MagCloud is going to take off … MagHound won’t catch on with subscribers because no one has any damn time to even read every issue that comes in (I am still on my January issue of FOLIO:!) … The Amazon Kindle will fizzle out … Bonnie Fuller will launch her own gossip/entertainment/fashion show … Perez Hilton will launch his own gossip magazine …