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!
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.
Italy magazine – “Your Bridge to Italy” – has gone ‘online only’. Ciao!
Sky Kids, the freebie distributed with Sky Magazine, has had its plug pulled.
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’.
Luxury Publishing, customer publisher for upmarket clients such as personal concierge outfit Quintessentially, has gone into administration.
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.
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
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…)
