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******* SUSTAINING THE GAIN: TV Guide's radical plan to save itself with a total redesign has met with some success ??” but will it last? Newsstand sales are way up since October, when the magazine upgraded from digest size to full size and shed most of its listings. According to a source with access to retail data, the magazine has sold an average of roughly 524,000 copies per issue since the relaunch, up from 315,000 in the first half of the year. The Nov. 29 issue, which came with special glasses enabling viewers to watch an episode of "Medium" in 3-D, performed especially well, with sales of 903,000 copies. The following issue, however, which was on sale over Thanksgiving weekend, sold only 270,000 copies. A TV Guide spokeswoman declined to comment on these numbers, saying accurate sales figures were not yet available. ALI REMATCH: The George Lois renaissance continues. In October, the American Society of Magazine Editors selected three of the legendary art director's vintage Esquire covers as part of the "Top 40 Magazines of the Past 40 Years," including his 1968 Muhammad Ali cover. Recently, Lois has been consulting in the magazine world again ??” he collaborated on Radar's covers during its brief resurrection. And now he's at work on his next book. MORE ONLINE
2. Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears sued Us Weekly for libel on Monday, accusing the magazine of fabricating a story that she and her husband made a sexually explicit video together and worried it might be made public. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Spears and her spouse, dancer Kevin Federline, seeks $10 million in damages against the magazine over the story, which ran in the publication's "HOTstuff" column in October. According to the suit, the item was published with the headline: "Brit & Kev: Secret Sex Tape? New parents have a new worry: racy footage from 2004." MORE ONLINE
3. NY Sun
When Partisan Review was shuttered in 2003, after seven decades of publication, it served as a pointed warning of the dangers facing little magazines. In almost every case, the glory days of a small literary or intellectual review come at the beginning, fueled by the editors' need to make a point, or a name, or both. But when such a magazine succeeds, there is a natural reluctance to let it fade away after its natural lifespan of five or 10 years; so it frequently lingers on, the mausoleum of its own past influence. By this measure, at the time Partisan Review began publishing, Poetry was already ancient. Founded in 1912, it is older than Time, older than the New Yorker, and a great deal older than the institutions that now define the poetry world. In fact, writers' workshops and MFA programs and nonprofit publishers - all the infrastructure of American poetry - might be said to have sprung from the pages of Poetry, which in its fabled early years helped to establish poetry as a serious American art. No history of American literature would be complete without a mention of Harriet Monroe, the Chicago philanthropist who allowed her magazine, sometimes against her own better judgment, to be commandeered by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and the other leading lights of Modernism. Any periodical that, in its first five years, publishes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," along with major poems by Pound, Williams, and Yeats, has earned a place in the Parnassus of little magazines. MORE ONLINE
4. Washington Post
In 2005, Popular Science magazine published a story called "How Cannibalistic Spider Sex Can Make You a Genius" and Bible Review magazine published a story called "Song of Songs: Not Just a Dirty Book," and Baby Talk magazine published a story called "Is it love . . . or gas? Decode your baby's emotions." Yes, folks, 2005 was another wild and wacky year for American magazines. How wild and wacky was it? Well, let's check the clips: In 2005, GQ conducted a random survey of 1,000 American men and learned this: 13 percent have paid for sex and 11 percent have prayed for sex. MORE ONLINE
5. Media Industry Newsletter
As far as we know, the German-exported Bauer Publishing produced none of the project-ed 1,000 U.S. launches this year of promoted-in-2005 University of Mississippi journalism-department chairman and Guide to New Magazines author (since 1986) Samir Husni. But the influence of Bauer weekly successes InTouch (October 2003 launch), Life & Style Weekly (September 2004), and, from a generation ago, Woman's World (1981), is huge. "Bauer was not first with either the celebrity or women's-service formula," says Husni. "But it has consistently proved that charging an affordable price on the newsstand will get people to buy." This year, Hearst Magazines paid homage to WW with the weekly Quick & Simple (a more direct acknowledgment than the monthly 2005 launches All You [Time Inc.] and For Me [Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.]), and American Media Inc. and Richard Desmond added to the under-$2 IT/ L&SW celebrity mix with Celebrity Living Weekly and OK!. Latter is a British export, and Desmond gained some notoriety over the summer with his paying Jessica Simpson $$$/thousands to supply OK! "exclusives" on the actress/ singer's professional and personal life. Ended up not including Simpson's biggest "personal"--her separation from husband Nick Lachey, which US Weekly broke ( min, December 5, 2005)--and Husni says that it is proof that British-style "checkbook intimacy" does not work here. "If [Desmond] doesn't Americanize OK quickly, then there is no future. OK! reminds me of Hachette's U.S. entrance in 1979 [six years before Elle], when it made the revived Look resemble Paris Match. Look did not last long." MORE ONLINE
************ ... that that Niche Media (Gotham, Hamptons, LA Confidential, Aspen Peak, Boston Common, Capitol File) is looking for fashion interns for the Spring semester. Please send resume to meredithg@nichemediallc.com. (OK to mention Ed) ... that the Stuff photo department is seeking an to fill new internships for the Spring semester ASAP. We need interns interested in working 2-3 days a week or more. We are looking for someone with a high level of maturity and responsibility. The position offers great amount of experience and exposure to the magazine industry. We require a very capable, self-discipline and proactive individual. The work, while mostly administrative in nature, remains creatively oriented. He or she will be assisting members of the photo department with production, research, invoicing, etc. A working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, In Design, and Mirocsoft Suite a plus. Most importantly, the individual must have a passion for photography and pop culture. Stuff is a fun, entertaining, and interesting environment to work in. It is not a paying position, and candidates must be able to receive SCHOOL CREDIT for their work. Possible candidates will please investigate eligibility prior to applying. Must be available to work 2 -3 days per week. All cover letters and resumes can be emailed to stuffphoto@stuffmagazine.com PLEASE PUT STUFF INTERN IN SUBJECT. (OK to mention Ed) ... that a busy Manhattan magazine office is looking for interns who want hands-on publishing experience. Specializing in home and garden, you'll do what we do: find great pictures for our layouts, research the marketplace, write dynamic copy, and take care of administrative business as it comes up. We offer flexible hours/days, an easy-going office environment and the real possibility of bylines to build your portfolio. No pay. School credit NOT required. Start date in January. Interested candidates should forward a resume and brief letter (no attachments, please) to: Janet Mowat, Managing Editor, jmowat@harris-pub.com.
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