There is no Plan B

Independent music magazine Plan B has announced it is to cease publication next month after five years in print.

Following the crowd

Buck magazine (which Private Frazer felt was a less than brilliantly conceived launch, here and here) has abandoned its print edition and joined the crowd who’ve gone web only.

For the compost bin

Organic Garden and Home “the practical guide to natural living”, is experiencing a natural death – Morton’s Media are closing the title

Just another average day in the gloom factory

Euromoney reveals £41.8m loss
Euromoney Institutional Investor said trading would become worse before it gets better

BBC Magazines set to cut 30 staff
Publisher is looking to reduce its headcount by about 30 staff in a bid to cut costs and restructure its operations.

And the winner is…

Further signs of the strength of magazine publishing are shown in the list of companies who are sponsoring the PPA awards next month. Out of 22 categories the PPA has so far managed to get just six of them sponsored.

Flush with the cash I saved by not buying RBI, I might look into taking my own category, although ‘Magazine most likely to close in the next 12 months’ is likely to have such a long list of nominees that the lovely Dara O’Briain might still be reading it out at the end of July.

Six-yearly is the new monthly

It will make a stylish corpse. According to the Grauniad, i-D magazine is cutting back its editions and will publish only six times a year from the summer.

The announcement was accompanied by this piece of whifflespeak from the owners: “We see this restructure as a reinforcement of position and strength towards a magazine and brand we are passionate about.”

According to the statement, the August issue will go on sale 9 July and i-D will then publish in September, October, November, February, March and April. The April issue will remain on sale for up to four months.

Hard craft

Future’s You Can Craft magazine – “designed especially for card makers” – has folded. This is the second craft title to close recently with Aceville’s Quick and Crafty being put back in its box two weeks ago.

Unsustainable

A&D Media’s Sustainable Solutions has closed. They seem to have put into practice their philosophy – “the companies who solve their energy cost problems will have a distinct advantage over their competitors” – by reducing their energy consumption to zero.