Ruth Jamieson, author of 《Print is Dead》. Long Live Print is confident that the public will never fall out of love with magazines, viewing them as luxury products that provide a respite from our otherwise frenzied online activity.“There's something about the physical nature that means we can't really give them up. I think it's a bit like how telephones didn't stop people meeting up face to face, nor did televisions didn't put a stop to theatre. There's still a role for magazines.”
Jul. 14, 2015, The Independent
“One reason is that it's really easy to publish your own magazine now,” Jamieson says. “If you have the idea then there are loads of free，or relatively cheap, tools to make it with. And then, using social media, you can find contributors and an audience. So, in a way, the very thing that was supposed to destroy magazines - the internet -is actually helping to revive them. You don't need a big office and lots of money from investors anymore.’
Jul. 14, 2015, The Independent
Garnering loyalty from readers may look simple, but it is a long chain of micro-successes.XXI, a French quarterly of long-form reportage, is profitable despite carrying no ads, not putting its text online and being sold only in bookshops; it seems to depend entirely on French intellectual traditions and the concentration voracious readers in Paris.. Germany's Landlust is another print-only holdout which extols the virtues of slow-life and living in close contact with nature with a circulation of one million after seven years. As long as there are coffee tables, people will want things to put on them.
Jun.9, 2012, The Economist
