Why This New Wave of Independent Magazines is Thriving

Why This New Wave of Independent Magazines is Thriving

March 26, 2015, David Pilcher

“If you believe what you read,” writes Rana Niamh Smith in The Telegraph, “the print media has been on its deathbed ever since the birth of the internet.”

“But someone forgot to tell the creatives behind the latest wave of independent magazines,” Smith continues. “There seems to be a new launch looking for funding on Kickstarter every week, and the sector is booming: last year the independent-magazine subscription service Stack reported a 78 per cent increase in revenue, with its number of subscribers growing by 76 per cent.”

What’s behind this growth is a move away from mass market publications, and toward boutique-style magazines that dive deeply into a narrower niche.

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