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Mix and match magazine subscriptions

By Julie Starr | Published: August 24, 2008
Mark Potts blogs on Recovering Journalist about a new model being adopted by magazines that’s worth taking a look at. The first one is Portfolio’s takeout on Maghound, Time Warner’s plan to turn magazine subscriptions into an a la carte business: basically, you’ll be able to decide which issues of which magazines you take on [...]
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‘Why not make the Indy a magazine?’

By Julie Starr | Published: April 16, 2008
If you haven't caught up with the appointment of former Observer editor Roger Alton as editor of the UK's Independent, here's a nice piece from the Guardian's Peter Wilby. And then comes this blog post from Richard Addis with a few suggestions for Alton as to what he might do with the Indy once he gets his shoes under the desk: Launch a daily magazine instead...
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How to cure magazine addiction – become a subscriber

By Julie Starr | Published: December 13, 2007
Why is it that favourite magazines become so unappealing once you've subscribed to them?
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