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So you want to publish a magazine?
Angharad Lewis
Published in 2016 by
Laurence King Publishing Ltd
361–373 City Road
London EC1V 1LR
e-mail: [email protected]
www.laurenceking.com
Commissioned images on pages 32, 46, 70, 84, 106, 136 and 146 © Ivan Jones
Angharad Lewis has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-1-78067-754-5
Printed in China
Foreword — Jeremy Leslie
Introduction
3. Mono.kultur, issue 33, Spring 2013, Kim Gordon, featuring artworks by Gordon
printed on various insert papers
4. The Gourmand, issue 4, 2014, cover, featuring photography by Thomas Pico for
a special report on chocolate
5. Works That Work, issue 2, 2013, article examining how the lowly shipping
container has helped transform world economics
6. Delayed Gratification, issue 12, 2014, article about an electrical engineer from
Derby, UK, who became a king in Nigeria
7. Port, issue 15, Autumn 2014, spread from article about renowned composer
Esa-Pekka Salonen, photographed by Pieter Hugo
8. The Ride, issue 8, 2014, front and back cover illustration by Shan Jiang. The
cycling journal stands out among its rivals for its storytelling editorial and creative
use of illustration and photography
9. Wrap, issue 10, Spring/Summer 2014. The magazine, which began showcasing
illustrators’ work in the form of bound sheets of wrapping paper, has evolved into
a perfect-bound design and culture title
10. Printed Pages, issue 6, Summer 2014, article about David Pearson’s book
designs. Printed Pages is the second printed incarnation of the online platform It’s
Nice That and creative agency INT Works
11. The White Review, issue 9, December 2013. Probably the world’s most
beautiful art magazine, it is a joyful print experience, with bound cover, regular
tipped- and bound-in reproductions and postcard inserts
This book is born out of that community spirit, and has come about
entirely through the generosity of all the publishers who have
contributed to it. Regardless of the mountains that independent
publishers have to climb, their reward comes from the ever-growing
army of readers who are in love with magazines.
Where to start
You may care passionately about your subject, but you must make
something that other people will regard with equal fervour. And
that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Once you’ve established that there
is an audience for your magazine, you must let enough people know
about it, inspire them to buy it, and keep delivering content and
design that make them crave the next instalment.
‘Niche’ needn’t mean ‘irrelevant’, especially if your idea genuinely
taps an uncared-for market. Andrew and Philip Diprose’s The Ride
Journal prints a modest 5,000–6,000 copies of each issue, but they
sell out to an eager audience of bicycle enthusiasts who appreciate
the unique blend of story-telling, illustration and photography. The
title has identified a market of cyclists who are interested in the
experience of cycling, rather than the kit and caboodle touted in
most other bike magazines.
Interview
The Publisher
Jefferson Hack
Editor-in-Chief, Dazed & Confused, AnOther,
AnOther Man; Founder, Dazed Group
1. Jefferson Hack, portrait by Brantley Gutierrez
What was the motivation for the first issue of Dazed &
Confused?
There was a pre-Dazed magazine moment called Untitled. It
was a student magazine that Rankin and I, and a colleague,
Ian Taylor, were involved with. Rankin was at the London
College of Printing [LCP], where I was [studying journalism],
and he was doing a sabbatical as the student union
communications officer. He had this vision that all the art
colleges of the London Institute, which LCP was a part of
[along with Saint Martin’s School of Art, Chelsea School of Art,
the Central School of Art and Design and Camberwell School of
Arts and Crafts] should have a magazine that was distributed
through all the colleges.
Rankin was recruiting people to help on this project, and I
was the only one who turned up to the first meeting … I was
the only willing victim. He said: ‘Do you know who Gilbert and
George are?’ I said ‘No.’ He said: ‘Oh, because they’re Britain’s
most famous artists. You’re interviewing them tomorrow
morning and I’m taking the pictures.’ And that was our first
commission together – the beginning of our working
relationship. It was that quick, we met one day and the next
day we were on a job together.
I remember getting the first issue of that magazine back
from the printer and feeling this very, very powerful sense of
elation, a high, from having in my hand the physical copy of
what had just been an idea. It seemed incredibly satisfying as
a process – that buzz, the first one, is the one I’ve been
chasing ever since.
3. Dazed & Confused, issue 46, 1996, Aimee Mullens, concept by Alexander
McQueen, photography by Nick Knight, styling by Katy England
4. Dazed & Confused, issue 16, featuring Björk, the magazine’s first
‘celebrity’ cover star
Vital statistics
The way you structure the logistical and financial side of your
magazine is just as important as how it will look and read. Sketching
out the numbers is the first step in a lot of big decisions, and is
bound up with choices about how you’ll produce the physical object.
It is sensible to start with a clear plan, even if it is modest in
scale; you can always adapt and develop it later. As you determine
the basics, such as print run, frequency and revenue streams, each
piece of the jigsaw will help you to place the next.
If you’re starting small, with your own money, take baby steps. If
you mean to launch with an ambitious statement of a magazine, be
prepared to plan in excruciating detail and get investment. At one
end of the spectrum, you might be printing 500 copies of a 32-page
A4 (or 8½ x 11 inch) stapled magazine to send to blog readers or
members of your club twice a year. At the other end is a monthly
magazine printing 100,000 copies, to be sold in bookshops and
newsagents around the world, carrying advertising from high-end
global brands. Most indie magazines sit somewhere between these
poles.
‘I don’t think there’s any shame in starting by making 1,000 copies
of something – you don’t have to do the finished product straight
up,’ says Will Hudson of It’s Nice That. ‘Do a newspaper to show an
editorial tone, get it out and into people’s hands, then see if it leads
to something.’
Wrap magazine, now in its fifth year, began life as a newsprint
publication, only evolving into today’s format of a 104-page perfect-
bound magazine once its makers, Polly Glass and Chris Harrison, had
built up a following of readers. ‘The spec was pretty lo-fi for the first
edition, compared to how Wrap looks today,’ says Glass, ‘which made
it relatively affordable to test it out as an idea, and see how people
would react. Luckily the concept was really well received, and so
from there on, the magazine has been able to support itself.’
Ask
Consider Consult
yourself
Your printer
for costing
Your market and your options.
budgets. Realistically, how Your
How many
many people will buy each distributor, if
copies will
issue? How many can you you’ll be using
you print?
afford to print, and how will one, on what
you sell them? volume they can
place with
retailers.
Chapter 8 on
Crowdsourced funding financial
or online pre-sales can planning.
help you to determine how Page 144 on
many you need to print. defining a print
run.
Chapter 7
about getting
If you plan to carry advertisers.
advertising, you need Potential
volume to attract brands. advertisers
about their
expectations.
Chapter 7 on
Think about your advertising.
market. Are there enough Brands: try to
brands that will advertise? gauge interest
How will you compete with from potential
Will you the other magazines in the advertisers.
carry market? Will you make Other
advertising? editorial concessions to magazines:
your sponsors? Can you make an audit
afford to reach your goals of the number
without advertising and type of ads
revenue? in competing
titles.
« C’est à partir de cet instant que j’ai répété sans cesse à ceux
qui doutaient : « Vous verrez, vous verrez ! Il n’y a pas de peuple qui
ait moins changé que le peuple de France. C’est quarante millions
d’aristocrates. Il étonnera le monde… »
FIN
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
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Le mammouth 51
Le manteau de plumes 75
L’ombre de Byron 91
Du berger à la bergère 101
Le parfum 111
La Mer.
La mine 127
Un gabier exceptionnel 135
Un cimetière 145
Les cachalots 153