Deary me, just look at the dates between this post and the last. More than a month. What the hell have I been doing?

Oh, right. 56-page magazine from the ground up.

That’s officially out the way today as it’s sent off to the printers – complete with any typos which I may have missed during four exhausting proof-readings. (I nearly cried last night when I saw “Donky Kong”, just as I finished exporting what I was confident would be the final PDF.)

The end result has really pleased me, and I really …

It was with a somewhat heavy heart yesterday that I started reading through the Audit Bureau of Circulation’s (ABC) figures for June to December of last year. As the saying goes there are lies, damn lies and pie charts, but there could be no denying that for magazine publishers, those working in the industry and anyone wishing to find a print-based job come June/July, the numbers could make for grim reading.
Bauer Media, publishers of Total Film, Arena, Q and Zoo were looking at a drop of 8.5% year-on-year; NatMag saw …