Daily Archives: Thursday, June 26, 2003

Flash in the vaporzine pan: I’ve coined this phrase, vaprozine, that refers to magazine concepts announced in trial balloon-fashion, like vaporware in the software world. For a good example of what happens to most vaporzines, see this story from Media … Continue reading →

Tongue twister: David Pecker pays a pile for publishing’s priestess of puff-loids, reports David Carr.

Entrepreneur vs. entrpreneur: In what has to be one of the longest-running lawsuits I can think of (no, wait, I just thought of another one), a judge has ruled in favor of the folks at Entrepreneur Magazine and against the … Continue reading →

American dream: As the start-up spin of American Magazine captures so much of what I blog about here: small business entrepreneur, Wal-Mart, magazine publishing and Tennessee, I can’t help but pull for its founders. My warning to the publishers, however, … Continue reading →

Everyday prison food: Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. The business for which Martha Stewart serves as creative director has announced it is going to continue publishing Everyday Food, a magazine it has tested in recent months.

Disconvergence: In a question that sounds like it was posed five years ago, Editor & Publisher asks, “Will convergence live up to the hype?” I think the answer to that is much shorter than the article devotes: “No.” Of special … Continue reading →