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The Magazine Diaries
Publishing ideas worth stealing
By Peter Houston · Launched 5 months ago
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Good ideas never die
This newsletter is an old idea. The original Magazine Diaries project was an A5 publication sharing the thoughts of 100 magazine professionals about publishing’s digital transition. This incarnation is a Substack sharing ideas that those people and others like them are…
Aug 12
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Be surprisingly good
Turn readers into true fans Doing a good job is the baseline for publishing success. I used to reassure newly promoted editors, nervous of the ultimate magazine responsibility, that “you can’t break a magazine with one issue”. I did follow up almost immediately with, “
Aug 5
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The Magazine Diaries newsletter
Publishing ideas worth stealing
Mar 24
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Festival lessons
I’m sending you a truncated newsletter this week - just one idea - because, after two years of waiting, I’m off to a festival. I’ve dug out the tickets I bought back in 2019 and I’m heading to a field in Wiltshire to watch a wonderful collection of musicians I’ve mostly never…
Jul 29
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Good ideas never die
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Drive it like you stole it
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Schrödinger's print run
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You can do anything...
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Call the cops
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This is how magazines work
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You can do anything...
“You can do anything, but not everything” is a quote I stole from the first linked article in this week’s newsletter. The writer stole it from…
Jul 22
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Ineffective, burned out and broke
That sounds like a line from a really bad Country song. But its actually how one publishing association thinks you’ll end up without a proper plan for…
Jul 15
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Hello!
Yes, yes I know. I said you deserved better and then blew it by skipping two newsletters in a row. I’m sorry, but you know - Verona, Cascais, Cannes …
Jul 8
I confess
Forgive me dear reader, it has been two weeks since my last newsletter. Since June 3rd, I’ve been in Verona, Italy; Cascais, Portugal; and on Monday I’m…
Jun 18
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This is how magazines work
Did I ever tell you about my favourite analogy for how magazines work? Imagine your magazine is a stool, perfectly balanced on three legs. One of those…
Jun 3
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Cover stories
The world needs you to be you Over the last week or so I have seen some incredible magazine covers and one spectacular home page. And, with your…
May 27
2
That's C.R.A.P.
Saturdays are the new Fridays OK that’s BS, I just couldn’t get the newsletter done yesterday. That’s got me thinking though. Does the magazine world…
May 21
Call the cops
I need to report a major idea heist I spent yesterday at a hotel in Derbyshire with some of the best idea stealers I’ve ever met. Nikki Simpson - the…
May 13
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Good ideas never die
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Drive it like you stole it
3
Schrödinger's print run
3
You can do anything...
3
Call the cops
2
This is how magazines work
2
See all popular
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