Recently, interior designer Charise Glasson shared her favorite design maganzines. All over the internet, people have been talking about what changes need to be made to save magazines. What content needs to change? Will advertisers come back to magazines? Will readers? Will they all go online? Even Elle Decor‘s Margaret Russell discussed this in last month’s issue.
One group of consumers is putting their money where their mouth is. They want to build a group of support for the magazine industry by having everyone buy a magazine on the same day — tomorrow, February 1, to be precise. They even made a Facebook fan page, imaginatively titled “Save the Magazines!! Make Feb 1st National Buy a Magazine Day!”
I’m not sure if corralling everyone to buy a magazine on one day is going to cure the magazine industry’s ills, but it’s nice to see people wanting to do something to save a media platform they care about. And it’s fun, so why not?
Tomorrow, I think I’m going to buy three magazines — at least one that I wouldn’t otherwise buy — and subscribe to at least one. All design, of course.
I’ll see you tomorrow, in the magazine section.
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