links for 2007-10-17

Or maybe it’s not. Since pages are down and revenues up and discounts are being handed out. Also, there are some hurting dinosaurs in the magazine world.

Quote – Translation: Here’s a nice cardboard box! Fill it with your things, and pretend it’s just like Christmas!

Quote – Barcodes have been an irritation to cover designers ever since their introduction to magazines in the eighties. But the re-launched UK Esquire has been having fun with theirs.

Joseph Jaffe’s new book out. Quote -: Conversational marketing will make up the third pillar of the new marketing model.