No More Teen People
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ltmurnauI have to admit I read the headline with joy, for I wondered how it was possible to dumb People magazine down any further - though the good folks at Time Inc. managed it somehow.
Then I realized even bumwipe like this (and not even good bumwipe, since it's on such glossy paper) is also a casualty of Modern Times.
Of course! If people stop reading books and magazines, they'll stop reading the crap as well as the stuff that's actually good (which proportion has, by my estimation, hovered between one and six percent of all material published in any given year, since the invention of movable type).
Maybe this is not such a good trade.
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Time announces demise of Teen People magazine
Last Updated Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:50:19 EDT
CBC Arts
Time Inc. of New York has announced it will stop publishing celebrity magazine Teen People.
Publication of the print edition will stop immediately, but the magazine's website will continue to operate, Ann Moore and John Huey, chief executive and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., announced in a memo to employees on Tuesday.
About 50 employees will be affected by the closure.
Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko said a "challenging" advertising market and declining circulation led to the decision to close the print version of the magazine.
Ad pages sold had declined 14.4 per cent in the first six months of the year.
Young readers are turning to the Internet for their celebrity news, and print publications are having difficulty retaining readers. Many tabloid celebrity publications are also competing for the same readers.
Teen People's circulation fell 0.7 per cent in 2005, 2.7 per cent in 2004 and three per cent in 2003, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations
Earlier this year, the Elle Girl magazine, a youth fashion and celebrity publication from Hachette Filipacchi Media, ceased publishing.
Teen People, an offshoot of the Time publication People, was begun in 1998.
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Then I realized even bumwipe like this (and not even good bumwipe, since it's on such glossy paper) is also a casualty of Modern Times.
Of course! If people stop reading books and magazines, they'll stop reading the crap as well as the stuff that's actually good (which proportion has, by my estimation, hovered between one and six percent of all material published in any given year, since the invention of movable type).
Maybe this is not such a good trade.
***
Time announces demise of Teen People magazine
Last Updated Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:50:19 EDT
CBC Arts
Time Inc. of New York has announced it will stop publishing celebrity magazine Teen People.
Publication of the print edition will stop immediately, but the magazine's website will continue to operate, Ann Moore and John Huey, chief executive and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., announced in a memo to employees on Tuesday.
About 50 employees will be affected by the closure.
Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko said a "challenging" advertising market and declining circulation led to the decision to close the print version of the magazine.
Ad pages sold had declined 14.4 per cent in the first six months of the year.
Young readers are turning to the Internet for their celebrity news, and print publications are having difficulty retaining readers. Many tabloid celebrity publications are also competing for the same readers.
Teen People's circulation fell 0.7 per cent in 2005, 2.7 per cent in 2004 and three per cent in 2003, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations
Earlier this year, the Elle Girl magazine, a youth fashion and celebrity publication from Hachette Filipacchi Media, ceased publishing.
Teen People, an offshoot of the Time publication People, was begun in 1998.
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