Popworld mag goes down the dumper

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Only 9,000 sales out of a print run of 130,000. Ouch.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6571291.stm

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Staggering numbers but I'm not terribly surprised. I already thought that print mags of all kinds had been having a fairly difficult time for the last 10 years or so, and for music publications, surely it's just been 2 decades of almost unmitigated carnage? Who in their right mind would want to start one now?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

reckon if they'd broken 10,000 they might have continued. in fact it seems with the poor circulations of mags generally that 9000 isn't all that disastrous, though i'm not paying for the development. printing 130,000 first run does seem like a terrible idea.