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Bond Lifestyle - clothes, gadgets, guns, cars and lifestyle in the James Bond movies and novels

Bond Lifestyle provides a stylish and clear online guide to products related to the world of the most suave secret agent, Bond...... more

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infoMania 11.13.08

Chewing up the week's media so we can regurgitate it, half-digested, into your mouth. infoMania is a half-hour satirical... more

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We’ve Got You Covered 11.13.08

The $2 Billion Dollar Comic Genius, Obama's new puppy, and crazy Tyra in this roundup of the week's magazines. ... more

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Jennifer Aniston Is on the Beach (in Vogue Magazine)

It may not be summer outside, but I can see that magazines are inspired enough to ask (hot, toned, fit) celebrities to pose in... more

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Scarlett's Curves on the Cover of Wizard Magazine

Didn't expect to see Scarlett on the cover of comic book lovers' Wizard magazine, but here she is in all her busty... more

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Jennifer Connelly pictures in Marie Claire magazine December 2008

Jennifer Connelly is on the cover of Marie Claire’s December 2008 issue. In the interview, the beautiful actress talks about... more

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Kate Beckinsale talks about her diet and body image in Elle UK magazine

Posing in a very sexy photoshoot for the December 2008 issue of British Elle magazine, Kate Beckinsale opened up about... more

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Christina Ricci pictures in Italian Vanity Fair magazine October 2008

Here are some pictures of Christina Ricci in the October 2008 issue of Italian Vanity Fair magazine, in a photoshoot done by Mark... more

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We've Got You Covered 11.06.08

Barack, Bond, and Bonsai in this roundup of the week's magazines We've Got You Covered is a recurring segment on... more

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Economy Hurting Magazines-Layoffs

The drop in advertising that hit U.S. newspapers last year has made its way to magazine publishers Time Inc., Conde Nast Publications Inc. and Hearst Corp., exacerbated by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Time, publisher of People and Sports Illustrated, will cut 6 percent of its 10,200 employees and incur costs of as much as $125 million to restructure, parent Time Warner Inc. said today. Last month, Hearst Corp.'s CosmoGirl folded and the independent Radar shut down. Conde Nast ordered companywide job cuts, and scaled back Men's Vogue and Portfolio.

An industry that grew 30 percent faster than the U.S. economy last year is now in freefall. Magazine revenue declined 8.8 percent in the third quarter, after rising 6.1 percent in all of 2007, according to the Magazine Publishers of America. Publishers are in a double-bind because they offer discounted subscriptions to attract readers and boost their ad base.

``It's time for magazines to look at the model they've worked on, because it's completely broken,'' said Samir Husni, chairman of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. ``Unless it's fixed, we'll see more magazines fail.''

Magazines' problems stem from the slowdown of the economy and the travails of Wall Street, Time Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ann Moore said at an Audit Bureau of Circulations conference Oct. 30.

``By October, it was looking like 1931,'' said Moore, whose group publishes 24 titles. ``We've never had so many advertising clients in trouble at the same time.''

Ad Reliance

The economy is only part of the problem, said Husni, who edits the Mr. Magazine Web site. Most U.S. magazines subsidize subscriptions to lure advertisers, who provide up to 80 percent of revenue at some titles, he said.

European magazines charge subscribers more and have smaller staffs, Husni said. The Economist, based in London, costs $116.79 a year, while subscribers pay an average $42 for New York-based BusinessWeek, according to the two magazines. The Economist has about 100 editorial staffers, to BusinessWeek's 200, said Paul Rossi, publisher of the Economist's U.S. edition.

``We're about 50-50 in terms of revenue'' from subscriptions and ads, Rossi said. ``And we've been able to raise our advertising rate base because we've been growing.'' The drop in advertising that hit U.S. newspapers last year has made its way to magazine publishers Time Inc., Conde Nast... more