michael jackson

Michael Jackson's death last June unleashed a flood of memorial media coverage across media. In print, everyone from Time to Us Weekly to Jet converted regular issues into Michael Jackson specials, rushed special issues to newsstands and published book-a-zine tributes. Time magazine, for example, published a 64-page special extra issue on June 29, which retailed for $5.99, with a special Pepsi ad on the back that read, "You will always be the king of pop."

MagNet's analysis of Michael Jackson's impact includes July, which won't help the approaching circulation report covering January through June that's due Monday from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Early looks at many publishers' results have suggested that subscriptions held up fine over the first half but that newsstand sales suffered some sharp blows from the recession and a dispute with wholesalers.

New numbers from Hearst Magazines and Conde Nast are further reinforcing that picture.

Hearst said in its report to the Audit Bureau that its titles sold 10% fewer copies on newsstands in the first half than in the first half of 2008. Every title declined, with the biggest losses at Town & Country, down 20%, and Good Housekeeping, down 18%. The smallest declines belonged to Seventeen, where sales slipped just 2%, and House Beautiful, down 4%. The company said its competition, by comparison, lost about 14% of its newsstand sales.

Conde Nast titles lost 12% across the board, including newsstand drops of 25% at Details, 21% at Architectural Digest and Golf Digest, and 20% at Modern Bride. W and Gourmet also reported declines larger than 20%, but cover-price increases were partly to blame. Only GQ posted a gain, with a 7% increase, which Editor in Chief Jim Nelson attributed partly to timely Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Aniston covers.

Conde Nast said it has improved the profitability of its subscription circulation, where it gets an increasing proportion of its overall paid circulation, so newsstand is not quite as important as it once was. "We love the newsstand business," said Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., group president of Conde Nast Consumer Marketing. "We'd have loved it to be a little better. But our subscription business is quite strong, and it's so key to our strategy in building strong, qualified readers for our advertisers."

Newsstand declines aren't over, but they'll be less dramatic in the second half, Mr. Sauerberg predicted. "My gut instinct is the rate of decline will lessen," he said.

MagNet's Mr. Brechtel, who said the wholesaler problems hurt single-copy sales more than the recession did, agreed that the year should finish stronger than it started. May and June outperformed the first four months of the year, he said, not just because of June's Michael Jackson coverage but also because those first four months absorbed all the wholesaler fallout.

"It took a little while," said Ken Godshall, exec VP-consumer marketing at the Magazine Publishers of America. "But it appears newsstand sales started to heal starting in May and June of this year."

For some context, MagNet projects that magazine retail sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2009 will reach between $1.8 billion and $1.975 billion.

michael jackson

Michael Jackson's death last June unleashed a flood of memorial media coverage across media. In print, everyone from Time to Us Weekly to Jet converted regular issues into Michael Jackson specials, rushed special issues to newsstands and published book-a-zine tributes. Time magazine, for example, published a 64-page special extra issue on June 29, which retailed for $5.99, with a special Pepsi ad on the back that read, "You will always be the king of pop."

MagNet's analysis of Michael Jackson's impact includes July, which won't help the approaching circulation report covering January through June that's due Monday from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Early looks at many publishers' results have suggested that subscriptions held up fine over the first half but that newsstand sales suffered some sharp blows from the recession and a dispute with wholesalers.

New numbers from Hearst Magazines and Conde Nast are further reinforcing that picture.

Hearst said in its report to the Audit Bureau that its titles sold 10% fewer copies on newsstands in the first half than in the first half of 2008. Every title declined, with the biggest losses at Town & Country, down 20%, and Good Housekeeping, down 18%. The smallest declines belonged to Seventeen, where sales slipped just 2%, and House Beautiful, down 4%. The company said its competition, by comparison, lost about 14% of its newsstand sales.

Conde Nast titles lost 12% across the board, including newsstand drops of 25% at Details, 21% at Architectural Digest and Golf Digest, and 20% at Modern Bride. W and Gourmet also reported declines larger than 20%, but cover-price increases were partly to blame. Only GQ posted a gain, with a 7% increase, which Editor in Chief Jim Nelson attributed partly to timely Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Aniston covers.

Conde Nast said it has improved the profitability of its subscription circulation, where it gets an increasing proportion of its overall paid circulation, so newsstand is not quite as important as it once was. "We love the newsstand business," said Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., group president of Conde Nast Consumer Marketing. "We'd have loved it to be a little better. But our subscription business is quite strong, and it's so key to our strategy in building strong, qualified readers for our advertisers."

Newsstand declines aren't over, but they'll be less dramatic in the second half, Mr. Sauerberg predicted. "My gut instinct is the rate of decline will lessen," he said.

MagNet's Mr. Brechtel, who said the wholesaler problems hurt single-copy sales more than the recession did, agreed that the year should finish stronger than it started. May and June outperformed the first four months of the year, he said, not just because of June's Michael Jackson coverage but also because those first four months absorbed all the wholesaler fallout.

"It took a little while," said Ken Godshall, exec VP-consumer marketing at the Magazine Publishers of America. "But it appears newsstand sales started to heal starting in May and June of this year."

For some context, MagNet projects that magazine retail sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2009 will reach between $1.8 billion and $1.975 billion.

michael jackson

Michael Jackson's death last June unleashed a flood of memorial media coverage across media. In print, everyone from Time to Us Weekly to Jet converted regular issues into Michael Jackson specials, rushed special issues to newsstands and published book-a-zine tributes. Time magazine, for example, published a 64-page special extra issue on June 29, which retailed for $5.99, with a special Pepsi ad on the back that read, "You will always be the king of pop."

MagNet's analysis of Michael Jackson's impact includes July, which won't help the approaching circulation report covering January through June that's due Monday from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Early looks at many publishers' results have suggested that subscriptions held up fine over the first half but that newsstand sales suffered some sharp blows from the recession and a dispute with wholesalers.

New numbers from Hearst Magazines and Conde Nast are further reinforcing that picture.

Hearst said in its report to the Audit Bureau that its titles sold 10% fewer copies on newsstands in the first half than in the first half of 2008. Every title declined, with the biggest losses at Town & Country, down 20%, and Good Housekeeping, down 18%. The smallest declines belonged to Seventeen, where sales slipped just 2%, and House Beautiful, down 4%. The company said its competition, by comparison, lost about 14% of its newsstand sales.

Conde Nast titles lost 12% across the board, including newsstand drops of 25% at Details, 21% at Architectural Digest and Golf Digest, and 20% at Modern Bride. W and Gourmet also reported declines larger than 20%, but cover-price increases were partly to blame. Only GQ posted a gain, with a 7% increase, which Editor in Chief Jim Nelson attributed partly to timely Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Aniston covers.

Conde Nast said it has improved the profitability of its subscription circulation, where it gets an increasing proportion of its overall paid circulation, so newsstand is not quite as important as it once was. "We love the newsstand business," said Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., group president of Conde Nast Consumer Marketing. "We'd have loved it to be a little better. But our subscription business is quite strong, and it's so key to our strategy in building strong, qualified readers for our advertisers."

Newsstand declines aren't over, but they'll be less dramatic in the second half, Mr. Sauerberg predicted. "My gut instinct is the rate of decline will lessen," he said.

MagNet's Mr. Brechtel, who said the wholesaler problems hurt single-copy sales more than the recession did, agreed that the year should finish stronger than it started. May and June outperformed the first four months of the year, he said, not just because of June's Michael Jackson coverage but also because those first four months absorbed all the wholesaler fallout.

"It took a little while," said Ken Godshall, exec VP-consumer marketing at the Magazine Publishers of America. "But it appears newsstand sales started to heal starting in May and June of this year."

For some context, MagNet projects that magazine retail sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2009 will reach between $1.8 billion and $1.975 billion.

Ascii Art

Looking for some ascll art? Well, you have one example above. But what is ASCII Art? In layman’s terms, ASCII Art are pictures or images created using ascll characters. What is ASCII or what are ASCII characters? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange or in other words the characters you see on your keyboard (plus others that are not). 

Here is a sample of ASCII characters:

So in other words ASCII Art are just images that are created using those characters. It takes a lot of creative power to do so and if you have that, then feel free to play with this type of art.

I don’t know for how long this has been “released” because I’ve never searched for it. If you Google for “ascii art” then you’ll receive a very pleasant surprise. A Google logo made of ASCII code, and this is deeply an ASCII art. I don’t know why, but now I’m beginning to like ASCII art. It’s crazy how such a small thing, and rather unimpressive can have such a powerful effect on someone. Although ASCII art is usually uncolored, Google respects its logo which is colored the usual way, unlike in those Google Chrome OS screenshots that we’ve seen last month. 

Well, if you want to see this wonder, just search for ascii art on Google and check it out for yourself. Enjoy!

Ascii Art

Looking for some ascll art? Well, you have one example above. But what is ASCII Art? In layman’s terms, ASCII Art are pictures or images created using ascll characters. What is ASCII or what are ASCII characters? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange or in other words the characters you see on your keyboard (plus others that are not). 

Here is a sample of ASCII characters:

So in other words ASCII Art are just images that are created using those characters. It takes a lot of creative power to do so and if you have that, then feel free to play with this type of art.

I don’t know for how long this has been “released” because I’ve never searched for it. If you Google for “ascii art” then you’ll receive a very pleasant surprise. A Google logo made of ASCII code, and this is deeply an ASCII art. I don’t know why, but now I’m beginning to like ASCII art. It’s crazy how such a small thing, and rather unimpressive can have such a powerful effect on someone. Although ASCII art is usually uncolored, Google respects its logo which is colored the usual way, unlike in those Google Chrome OS screenshots that we’ve seen last month. 

Well, if you want to see this wonder, just search for ascii art on Google and check it out for yourself. Enjoy!

Ascii Art

Looking for some ascll art? Well, you have one example above. But what is ASCII Art? In layman’s terms, ASCII Art are pictures or images created using ascll characters. What is ASCII or what are ASCII characters? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange or in other words the characters you see on your keyboard (plus others that are not). 

Here is a sample of ASCII characters:

So in other words ASCII Art are just images that are created using those characters. It takes a lot of creative power to do so and if you have that, then feel free to play with this type of art.

I don’t know for how long this has been “released” because I’ve never searched for it. If you Google for “ascii art” then you’ll receive a very pleasant surprise. A Google logo made of ASCII code, and this is deeply an ASCII art. I don’t know why, but now I’m beginning to like ASCII art. It’s crazy how such a small thing, and rather unimpressive can have such a powerful effect on someone. Although ASCII art is usually uncolored, Google respects its logo which is colored the usual way, unlike in those Google Chrome OS screenshots that we’ve seen last month. 

Well, if you want to see this wonder, just search for ascii art on Google and check it out for yourself. Enjoy!

repose

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — As Sen. Edward Kennedy's family prepares for his public memorials, people are already visiting the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston to pay their respects.

About 20 people were lined up before the library opened at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Kennedy's body will travel the 70 miles from Cape Cod to lie in repose at the library he helped develop in tribute to one of his slain brothers.

Austin Howe, a 15-year-old a high school student from Laurel, Md., came with his father to see the museum and pay his respects to the senator, who died Tuesday at age 77 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Howe says Kennedy was "someone who made a difference."

Family members will attend a private Mass at Kennedy's Hyannis Port compound at noon Thursday, and the motorcade is scheduled to leave around an hour later.

Kennedy will be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia Saturday evening near his slain brothers — former president Kennedy and former senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Other family members buried on the famous hillside include former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and the former president's baby son, Patrick, who died two days after birth.

Kennedy is eligible for burial at Arlington because of his service in Congress as well as his two years in the army from 1951 to 1953. He was a private first class and served in the military police at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, located at that time in Paris.