Who's Leading the Print Pack? 20 Biggest Magazines So Far

Which magazine titles are touting the highest circulation numbers these days? Looks like food, gossip and women's lifestyle titles like Family Circle and Woman's Day are some claiming the most dollars from print readers.  Not surprised to find Better Homes & Gardens on the list with a healthy circulation of 7,644,011. See Huffington Post's report of the 20 Biggest Magazines of 2010 to see who's leading the print pack.

Bring Your Magazine Cover to Life with Your Smartphone

Augmented reality. That's what Time Out New York Kids Magazine is creating for their readers in their August issue as the first magazine using a technology that brings the cover to life with a multi-media component. Just shoot your smart phone at the cover to get a video. In this case, it's a video of  PS 22, the award-winning fifth-grade chorus from Staten Island. In today's game of trying to keep print titles in business, this technique is an inventive draw for readers and advertisers. Imagine what your favorite design or fashion magazine could do. 


What do you think? Would this influence your decision to purchase a magazine or newspaper? 

Lifestyle Mags Go iPad: GQ, Glamour,Vanity Fair

In the continuing story of the iPad and the future of our favorite magazines, Conde Nast is adding lifestyle titles Glamour, Vanity Fair and GQ to the iPad roster this year. This summer will surely be exciting time; a period that could see the publishing industry finally settle into a more successful and secure a business model. Are you planning to get an iPad?  Which magazines would you like to see become available?  

The Future of Magazines Alive in Prototype

I love print magazines. Flipping through their pages, starting at the last page instead of the first, and letting it hang around for a while on my coffee table like a piece of decor that showboats parts of my personality to my guests. So, I still have personal mixed feelings about the idea of a digital magazine. But it's an inevitable reality in the future of magazines.

We now have Lonny, the first all digital home design magazine, and major publishers Conde Nast, Hearst and others have signed onto to jointly produce and distribute digital magazines, dubbed the "Hulu for magazines." So I just HAD to check out this new digital magazine prototype developed by Bonnier. And its undeniably very cool. These guys have a great prototype going, aimed at capturing the print magazine experience.

My questions. Which titles will be available in digital ink, and will any of them be in the design & architecture categories? And, well, will I like curling up with it?