July 17, 2009
Overmatter
Mr Magazine goes on holiday: ‘No lap tops and no Kindles in sight… miles and miles of sandy beaches filled with folks on vacation armed with… books, magazines and newspapers’.
A reminder of Simon and my ‘Magazines are Dead, Long Live the Magazine’ event last year.
Next month, Borders closes five London stores including its Oxford Street branch. That one branch was renowned across London’s publishing community as a key source of smaller and independent publications. Who will step into the gap this closure leaves?
Claims that photographer Carl Fisher, who shot many of George Lois’s iconic US Esquire covers, was the brains behind the covers, not Lois. Listen to audio at around 18 minutes (thanks James).
Comment on July 17, 2009 by LondonLee says:
As I don’t live in London anymore I was wondering, are the two newsagents on Old Compton Street still there? I think one was called Moroni’s where you could buy things like the A1 size Manipulator.
