Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Arts Journal - For The First Time In Forever, Print Magazine Sales Are Up

Here’s A Surprise – For The First Time In Forever, Print Magazine Sales Are Up

Magazine sales have generally been falling since the day the inventor of the internet said: “Hey, why don’t I invent the internet?” But the latest ABC figures, released this week, show that sales of certain titles are actually going up. News and current affairs magazines are becoming more popular – but celebrity, gossip and fashion publications are still struggling.

There Has Been A Surge Of Interest In Boredom…

Quietly asserting itself in books and personal essays since 2015, the “boredom boom” would seem to be a reaction to the short attention spans bred by our computers and smartphones. The words “boring” and “interesting” didn’t exist in English till the 1800s, a period when…
 

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