Private Frazer’s Doomed Magazines

November 13, 2009

Uninspired

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines — privatefraser @ 4:32 pm
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Issue 60 of Scrapbook Inspirations (on sale 13 November 2009) will be the last monthly edition of the magazine.

As the Christmas issues hit the newsstand we can expect a slew of closures to be announced. Another Merry Christmas for the magazine industry!

Contract terminated

Filed under: B2B magazines, closures, rbi — privatefraser @ 9:18 am
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From the Guardian:

Reed Business Information is to make 18 staff redundant as part of a restructuring that will include the closure of 130-year old Contract Journal.

This follows the pattern of death by a thousand cuts for RBI.

 

November 10, 2009

Arriverderci

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines — privatefraser @ 8:36 pm
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Italy magazine“Your Bridge to Italy” – has gone ‘online only’. Ciao!

November 9, 2009

Busted Flush

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines, magazines — privatefraser @ 5:59 pm
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Dennis Publishing has thrown in its hand with Inside Poker magazine.

October 8, 2009

Think of the children

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines — privatefraser @ 2:38 pm

Sky Kids, the freebie distributed with Sky Magazine, has had its plug pulled.

September 17, 2009

Leaving Home

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines — privatefraser @ 4:26 pm
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Unsurprisingly, given the state of the overseas property market, Homes Overseas magazine is giving up the struggle to stay in print and is going ‘online only’.

September 15, 2009

Money is so vulgar

Filed under: closures, customer publishing, magazines — privatefraser @ 9:07 pm
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Luxury Publishing, customer publisher for upmarket clients such as personal concierge outfit Quint­essentially, has gone into administration.

August 24, 2009

Business failure

Filed under: B2B magazines, closures — privatefraser @ 8:37 pm
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Calling yourself “The equivalent of What Car Magazine for specifiers of business machinery” must have sounded like a great statement when it was first coined by the publishers of What to Buy for Business.

In the past 18 months What Car has lost over 20,000 copies, and something similar must have happened to its emulator; W2B4B (as it irritatingly called itself) has just fallen to the industry’s magazine scrappage scheme.

August 13, 2009

Look over there!

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines — privatefraser @ 3:51 pm

A good day to bury bad news? In case you missed this, what with the ABCs coming out and all:

Future Publishing has closed PSW magazine after 10 years

July 9, 2009

Cre8 tive acccounting

Filed under: closures, consumer magazines, customer publishing — privatefraser @ 2:49 pm
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Cre8, the publisher of various football magazines including Arsenal, Tottenham, Celtic, Rangers and QPR has gone into voluntary liquidation.

The situation is a little uncertain, but seems linked to the company’s recent involvement with a hotel in Peterborough.  The fact that it’s a voluntary liquidation raises the possibility of a phoenix operation with some of the more profitable assets being bought and reborn by the owners. (more…)

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