In the Bookroom

May 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Much of my time working on LJ's magazine reviews column is spent researching and requesting new publications—a task that's even harder in these dark days for print. Wooden Horse Publishing has been frequenly updated with new magazine tips for years. I can't speak to the quality of the paid database (which includes contact info, editorial calendars, etc. for over 2000 U.S. and Canadian consumer and trade magazines), but the homepage has tons of free blurbs on new publications of all types. 

Meg Weaver, who founded the company in 1997, says one of her...Read More

Industries: Magazine/Zine

March 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Time Inc. is now offering a limited number of free five-issue subscriptions to a customized magazine called Mine, featuring content from five magazines you choose from a list of eight. This experiment has one sponsor, Lexus, which will include ads tailor-made to subscribers based on five simple questions (like, Do you crave pizza or sushi?).

Those without computers can cash in on the free information Internet users are so used to by signing up at the library. Libraries may also want to consider displaying or pointing out the eight magazines—Time, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Money, In Style, Golf, and Travel ...Read More

Industries: Magazine/Zine

February 13, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Although he can at times be mean, the Grim Reaper at Magazine Death Pool keeps me up-to-date on folding

magazines. I'm sad to see Craft go—highlighted along with its nerdier, more masculine sister Make (which seems to trucking along okay fo...Read More

Industries: Magazine/Zine

January 13, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The four-hour season premiere of American Idol, which begins tonight and continues tomorrow, may spark some interest in series tie-ins. The "people's idol," Sanjaya Malakar, has added his memoir Dancing to the Music in My Head: Memoirs of the People's Idol to the still-growing list of American Idol-related books. Just Google "Sanjaya" and "memoir" to see that his fans are still active. His book drops this month, along with Idol music director Rickey Minor's ...Read More

November 19, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Although not a library-friendly size or shape, Richard Suart and A.S.H. Smyth's They'd None of 'em Be Missed  (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square) would make a perfect Christmas gift for all your musical theater–nerd friends.

Suart has played the role of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, and performed his "little list" song (often titled with its opening lyric, "As someday it may happen") since 1988...Read More