Overmatter

MagCulture.com Has Just Posted the Following with the title Overmatter

Mr Magazine goes on holiday: ‘No lap tops and no Kindles in sight… miles and miles of sandy beaches filled with folks on vacation armed with… books, magazines and newspapers’.

A reminder of Simon and my ‘Magazines are Dead, Long Live the Magazine’ event last year.

Next month, Borders closes five London stores including its Oxford Street branch. That one branch was renowned across London’s publishing community as a key source of smaller and independent publications. Who will step into the gap this closure leaves?

Claims that photographer Carl Fisher, who shot many of George Lois’s iconic US Esquire covers, was the brains behind the covers, not Lois. Listen to audio at around 18 minutes (thanks James).



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