In the Bookroom

July 23, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

When I got a call for submissions for the zine Not Your Mother's Meatloaf on Barnard's zine mailing list, my first thought was not "I should write something!" (I can't draw) but "This would be a great zine for library collections!" It's a sex education comic book edited by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley addressing issues of sexual health and sexual experience from points of view beyond the hetero- and gender-normative. The first issue is available from Microcosm Publishing and ...Read More

Industries: Magazine/Zine

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