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BoSacks Readers Speak Out: Re: The Real Story About Print Sales at

["The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards." - Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)] BoSacks Readers Speak Out: Re: The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail Re: The … Continue reading

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If You Are in the Magazine Business and You Are Not Excited About

["Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." - William Wirt (1772 - 1834)] Chris Keyes to Samir … Continue reading

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Profitable News

["It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)] Profitable News By Jeff Jarvis One of the most controversial things I have said (you’re welcome for that straight line) is … Continue reading

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How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps

["Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep" - William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616) ] Two Become One: How Magazines … Continue reading

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The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail

["Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)] The Real Story About Print Sales at Retail 4 facts and a … Continue reading

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Publishers’ emails: What 2 city magazines say about each other

["BoSacks Speaks Out: No doubt because I have started many regional publications I found this an amusing tale. In my very first publication in 1971 I went head to head with another local publisher, and there were some great times … Continue reading

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No B.S. : Publishing And The Continuance of Digital Ubiquity

[Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. -Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)] BoSacks: No B.S. : … Continue reading

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BoSacks Readers Speak Out: The Advantages of Being a Print Dinosaur

["It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." - William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954), Outspoken Essays … Continue reading

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Behind magazines’ newsstand woes

["Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies." - Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey] … Continue reading

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From Bloomberg, a New Luxury Magazine / Australia’s Top-Selling Magazines

["Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen (1935 - ) "Rich or poor, it is good to have money" as told to Bosacks by his mother at an early age From Bloomberg, a New … Continue reading

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