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The 40 Most Influential People in the Magazine Publishing Industry

Folio examined the entire industry, as well as a few markets that intersect it, for individuals who best represent an increasingly multifaceted media landscape. People who have demonstrated tangible proof of actionable ideas. This year’s list highlights the best in the industry from consumer, b-to-b, association, and regional publications. The Folio: 40 profiles C-Level visionaries, industry influencers, people under the radar, and director-level doers. View the list…

Folio also compiled a list of people to watch…

Add comment April 12th, 2007

400 Magazine Blogs

Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association for consumer magazines. Magazine.org’s blogroll features 400 blogs from member magazines. All blogs are classified under their magazine name on the left window. Once you select a magazine, a list of their current blogs will appear below next to an orange rss icon. The selected blog will display all of its current entries to the right with a preview of each selected entry in the window below it. Click on the title of the blog in the preview window on the next page to view the complete post…

(This handy tool was created using Grazr, an easy way to view information without having to follow links all over the Web.)

Add comment March 17th, 2007

The 51 Best Magazines Ever

The editors of Good magazine have compiled a list of the top (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most Influential, most necessary, most Important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. Check out all 51…

1. Esquire. Under Harold T.P. Hayes (1961-1973)
2. The New Yorker
3. Life. (1936-1972)
4. Playboy
5. The New York Times Magazine
6. Mad. Post comic book, before the death of founder William Gaines (1955-1992)
7. Spy. Until it was sold to fun-sponge Jean Pigozzi (1986-1991)
8. Wired. Early years until Conde Nast buyout (1993-1998)
9. Andy Warhol’s Interview. Until Warhol’s death (1969-1988)
10. Colors. The first 13 issues, under Tibor Kalman (1991-1996)

Add comment February 24th, 2007

List of Online Magazine Initiatives

Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, and redesigns, documented for the past two years. Check out the list…

Add comment February 21st, 2007

The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006

Fiction:

• Absurdistan. By Gary Shteyngart
• The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel. By Amy Hempel
• The Emperor’s Children. By Claire Messud
• The Lay Of The Land. By Richard Ford
• Special Topics In Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl

Nonfiction:

• Falling Through The Earth. By Danielle Trussoni
• The Looming Tower. By Lawrence Wright
• Mayflower. By Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. By Michael Pollan
• The Places In Between. By Rory Stewart

Add comment January 15th, 2007

New York Magazine’s Best Books of 2006

1.The Road, By Cormac McCarthy
2. The Looming Tower, By Lawrence Wright
3. The View from Castle Rock, By Alice Munro
4. State of Denial, By Bob Woodward
5. Suite Francaise, By Irene Nemirovsky
6. At Canaan’s Edge, By Taylor Branch
7. Fun Home, By Alison Bechdel
8. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, By Ivar Ekeland
9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, By Marisha Pessl
10. The Emperor’s Children, By Claire Messud

Add comment January 15th, 2007

The New York Times Top 100 Books of 2006

100 Notable Books of the Year from The New York Times Book Review. The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005. View the top fiction, poetry and nonfiction books of 2006…

Add comment January 1st, 2007

The Best Magazine Covers of the Year

The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME’s Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and editors, as well as the press, is hosted by Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and ASME. Eligible cover dates of entries ranged from August 1, 2005, to July 31, 2006. View the full list of winning magazine covers…

• Cover of the Year - “Flood in the Oval Office,” The New Yorker
• Best Celebrity Covers (tie) - Julianne Moore in Harper’s Bazaar; Busta Rhymes in VIBE
• Best News Cover - “Watch Your Back Mountain,” The New Yorker
• Best Concept Cover - “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” TIME
• Best Fashion Cover - 2005 Style Issue, Departures
• Best Service Cover - 2006 Fitness Issue, Time Out New York
• Best Cover Line - “Rocket Man,” The Economist

Add comment October 25th, 2006

The 101 Most Influential Fictional Characters

In their new book, The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter ranked characters of myth, legends, television, and movies based on how greatly they’ve affected society. These cultural icons exist only in the imagination. Folks like Batman (No. 60), Cinderella (No. 26), Santa Claus (No. 4), Luke Skywalker (No. 85), Mickey Mouse (No. 18), G.I. Joe (No. 48) and Barbie (No. 43). Check out the full list of the top 101…

1. The Marlboro Man
2. Big Brother
3. King Arthur
4. Santa Claus (St. Nick)
5. Hamlet
6. Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
7. Siegfried
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Add comment October 20th, 2006

857 Esquire Magazine Covers Since 1933

The Esquire Cover Gallery contains every magazine cover from Autumn, 1933 until the present. You can navigate the cover gallery archive by year and month…

Add comment August 10th, 2006

Favorite Books of Successful People

BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone – from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in their thinking and their careers…

Add comment July 30th, 2006

100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900

Holden Caulfield and the Cat in the Hat? Scarlett O’Hara and “Boo” Radley? They might not seem to have much in common, but they’re all on Book magazine’s list of the 100 best fictional characters of the 20th century. View the full list…

1. Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
2. Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
3. Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
4. Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
5. Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
6. Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
7. Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
8. Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
9. Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
10. Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905

Add comment July 16th, 2006

The New York Times Best Selling Book Lists

Browse The New York Times best seller lists, book reviews and news for authors, fiction and non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs, children’s books, science fiction, and self-help. On NYtimes.com, the best selling book lists are available one week ahead of the print edition of the Book Review…

Add comment July 15th, 2006

Every Time Magazine Cover Since 1923

Time’s archive features over 40 years of magazine covers. To browse through an issue, select a year in the covers gallery. Click on the cover image and you’ll find a table of contents with links to the articles from that issue. Find out what was on the cover the week you were born…

Add comment July 5th, 2006

Project Gutenberg’s Top 100 Books & Authors

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. View their most downloaded books and authors…

Add comment June 27th, 2006

Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years

Last October the American Society of Magazine Editors unveiled the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. Rolling Stone’s January 22, 1981 cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965..

A judging panel of 52 magazine editors, design directors, art directors and photography editors was charged with picking the 40 top covers from a pool of 444 images representing 136 magazines. The contest was open to all consumer magazines published in the United States. Magazines were invited to submit up to four entries from their respective publications. Entrants were also encouraged to nominate covers of magazines that were not published by their company or were no longer being published.

Add comment June 9th, 2006

Recommended Booklists for Kids

Reading Is Fundamental is the oldest and largest children’s and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. RIF has compiled over sixty recommended booklists for children of all ages.

Add comment May 18th, 2006

Best U.S. Novel in 25 years

Early this year, the New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus sent out a letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years. Toni Morrison’s Beloved won the poll. View the full list…

Add comment May 13th, 2006

The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2006

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for works published the previous year. There are 21 Pulitzer categories. In 20 of those categories the winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate. Only the winner in the Public Service category of the Journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation. Here are the winners for 2006…

Add comment May 4th, 2006

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.

The list of 100 best novels was selected by the editorial board of Modern Library, which has been publishing classic English-language literature at affordable prices since 1917 and is now a division of Random House.

Add comment April 13th, 2006

Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children

This list was compiled from a survey on the National Education Association website. Parents and teachers will find it useful in selecting quality literature for children.

Add comment March 24th, 2006

Reading Lists from the New York Public Library

Recommended reading booklists from The New York Public Library. Award winners, books to remember, best of reference, and topical lists created by NYPL librarians.

Add comment March 19th, 2006

10 Facts About Dr. Seuss

Who was Dr. Seuss and where did he live? What was the source of those bizarre ideas? BBC News Online answers 10 questions you may have wanted to ask about one of the big fish of children’s publishing.

Add comment March 18th, 2006

Great Poetry Books

The Academy of American Poets has selected 31 groundbreaking books of poetry. This group of books showcases the masterpieces of American poetry that have influenced—or promise to influence—generations of poets. Featured here are essays on each of these books, with information on their authors, publication history, critical responses, and their most acclaimed poems.

Add comment March 18th, 2006

Publishers Weekly Bestselling Book Lists

Publishers Weekly bestseller lists — the longest running in the business — are compiled from sales data from independent and chain bookstores. Weekly lists focus on adult fiction and nonfiction, trade paperback and mass market titles. They also publish lists of children’s, audio and religion bestsellers.

Add comment March 13th, 2006