ABSTRACT
Innovations in Magazine Publishing follows a number of significant academic publications which demonstrate the health of the subject matter as a field of enquiry. Reflecting interests current at the time of the book's compilation, there are some interesting essays on sex, gender and power in magazine publishing, alongside more general reflections on magazines, politics and identity. With sight of the coming age of ubiquitous media, free content and 24/7 global internet connectivity, magazine publishing has faced at least a decade of pathological predictions of disruption of what was an innovation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more explicitly 'creative' end of this magazine publishing spectrum is undoubtedly that of 'independent magazines'. Without innovation in employment structures and practices that at least matches the technological and business innovations described in this book, magazine publishing is in danger of becoming a cultural anachronism in a changing world.
