Wednesday, October 17, 2007

another one bites the dust

Literary magazine distributor Bernhard DeBoer announced it was shutting down this August, affecting some great magazines like Lyric and Jubilat...

Last winter, Publishers Group West went under, filing for bankruptcy and putting some fine magazines, McSweeney's and Punk Planet (completely ruined by their distributor's failure) among them, into financial crisis. This useful feature from Salon gives more background...

With this kind of financial craziness, how are little magazines supposed to get into bookstores?

This article from Publisher's Weekly offers a little hope, but not much.

It seems there is a fine business opportunity for a group of people with a little start-up capital, a good website, some financial know-how, and some connections in New York City to provide this service for magazines.

--Hannah

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