The Business of Magazines

[Ives927]

I don't foresee digital versions of magazines ever taking over print publications. E-books have been quite successful, but magazines (fashion to be exact) are a different story. I can not name one successful and known online-based only publication (fashion-wise). Will the print industry die? I predict no. Will it shrink? Yes. I purchase a handful of magazines each month and I believe there are enough of us, that appreciate a tangible object over something digitized, to sustain the industry (hopefully). I want to physically own the images, advertisements, and articles. Digital publications create another wall between the content and the reader. I personally do not like that disconnection.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Just like e-books, I find the idea of digital magazines absolutely awful. A nice fashion magazine is something with a soul, something you can collect. You enjoy flicking through it and putting it back on the shelf, you enjoy the different paper when there is, it's something very special. Reading it on an i-Pad will never bring all that.

I agree, the only good thing is that you can easier access it when away, or take it with you, but the actual print issue will always be better in my eyes as well.

 

[saann]

I agree with everyone here. The access is nice but somehow e-books don't feel real the way books and magazines do. They feel temporary, not something one can collect and dig up even 5 years later..

 

[tigerrouge]

I haven't abandoned print magazines in favour of the internet, I don't buy them so often these days because so much of the content is a diluted reinteration of everything that's gone before, with nothing worthwhile being added to the mix.

Yes, of course, fashion will eat itself and constantly churn out new variations of the same old things, but it also feels like the soul has gone out of much of the fashion magazine industry, a missing sense of personal vision and artistic experimentation which used to counterbalance the commercial side, and create a more satisfying blend of content that would sustain a second look, years down the line.

 

[LANZO_358]

^^ Which is perhaps why more people are getting into independent mags and/or international titles from newer publishers/non-traditional markets. Some imo have a more curated feel and though they deal with more or less the same themes, it's nice to see how they're interpreted.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Vogue Paris to be published in english?

France gave the US the Statue of Liberty, now we are taking Vogue.fr to the wider world... get ready for #VogueParisinEnglish

https://twitter.com/#!/VogueParis/statuses/188275105376378883

 

[Bruggelidda]

Amazing news!

 

[Srdjan]

Website? Or the magazine? Or both?

 

[Thefrenchy]

^The website, thank god. That'd be a shame if they published it in english !

 

[Srdjan]

^ I was thinking maybe they'd publish it in 2 versions (fr. & en.) ..

 

[Thefrenchy]

^Nah, I doubt that'll ever happen.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

^The website, thank god. That'd be a shame if they published it in english !

I am looking forward to not having to rely on poor Google Translate translations when I browse it.

 

[honeycombchild]

Doesn't Vogue Homme get printed in two languages?

 

[Melancholybaby]

^Yes, it does. So it wouldn't be too much out of reach for VP to publish an English version.

 

[Pradable]

Thanks God it's only the website!!!

 

[Thefrenchy]

^Yes, it does. So it wouldn't be too much out of reach for VP to publish an English version.

Non, non, non et re-non Vogue Paris represents France, a country where you speak French. If you're frustrated you can't read the articles then get yourself a French-to-English dictionary or French classes

 

[Srdjan]

The only possible thing is that they start running an English version of the magazine (besides the french one), in order to get closer to it's not-french speaking (like me!) buyers (can't say readers in this case)

Or only the website will go both French and English.

 

[Thefrenchy]

^To justify that, they'd have to make a hell lot of profits when selling the magazine beyond the French borders -- and I doubt they do. But an English version of the website would be possible. You can get Vogue.it in English after all...

 

[Vladita]

^ I hope both.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

Non, non, non et re-non Vogue Paris represents France, a country where you speak French. If you're frustrated you can't read the articles then get yourself a French-to-English dictionary or French classes

MERCI ! I buy vogue china but i can't read Chinese so vogue china will start publishing in French ? Each country has its Vogue, that's all and if you want to read it, it's to you to make efforts not the magazine.

P.S : yes I'm proud of be french and i don't want this American supremacy