Comments on: Not Again: Domino Magazine Folds Due To Economic Suckfest

By: Jarrod Barger

Jarrod Barger — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:32:14 +0000

I was really disappointed Domino fold as well! Just when I saved up enough money to become a stylish little man to further seduce people into thinking I am normal, the magazine goes under!

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:32:17 +0000

Conde Nast offered me Glamour in exchange for my unpaid subscription. I’m 46 and said “no thanks.” Instead I chose Architectural Digest, the only home magazine they now publish. Yuk — not only am I not a multi-millionaire, but the interior design is stuffy and contrived. It is September and I’m still grieving Domino…

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:25 +0000

I bought a subscription through a school fundraiser for this magazine… after this article published of it folding! And they still cashed my check! I wonder if I will get a refund since I won’t be getting the magazine.

By: L.E.

L.E. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:05:19 +0000

I waited by the mailbox for this magazine and poured over it for weeks until the next arrived. I’m so disappointed! ANything else out there that compares??

By: Tom J

Tom J — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:11:23 +0000

I just started subscribing to it, both at home, and buying it for the library I manage. Was a great magazine – makes me sadi tot hink I regifted all the older issues – I HATE to see it fold! I wonder can I buy single back issues anywhere?

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By: marimeli

marimeli — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:24:19 +0000

I absolutely loved domino magazine and its useful website. It was fun and unstuffy. I couldn’t wait every week to do my day off ritual. On Thursdays,I go to the drugstore of choice and buy 1 interior design magazine and read it cover to cover. I just sit while I let the world collapse around me comfortably drinking a glass of fresh lemonade or ice cold cola… Domino made it all the more fun because I could actually afford some of the items in the pictures. I will really miss it!!!!

By: RemyC

RemyC — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:17:05 +0000

$40 million Conde Nast sunk into Domino, and still they couldn’t make it work.

It leads me to wonder if Conde Nast still remembers how to make mass market titles.

Newsstands sales are dying… Everybody is running away from print. Some titles put out 10.000 copies on newsstands, and barely sell 500… They simply do it for the exposure. Unsold copies get trashed, and since newsstands like B&N or Borders only recycle if the town they’re in recycles, most unsold magazines end up trashed in land fills or incinerators.

Lap tops and cell phone suck at the magazine experience, which is why the race is on now to develop thin, portable OLED tablets that can bring large images into your hands. Till then we’ll witness more and more titles go belly up, as once magazine junkies now get their fix from the web.

Interesting that this doesn’t seem to be affecting high end fashion boutique publications which sell for $20 or more a copy! They print limited editions that sell at a premium to affluent readers.

The trick is to create amazing interactive websites, and a quarterly, semi-annual table top print edition, people will pay for a premium for, keep, cherish and collect.

Both libraries and bookstores are relics of a dying culture. The future is like Manga stores in Japan, comfortable high end reading rooms designed for an educated and information hungry audience.

By: Lynsay

Lynsay — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:50:51 +0000

I was so disappointed to hear that Domino folded! I also like Natural Home magazine. They have great design, home and eco-friendly lifestyle information.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:15:32 +0000

E seems to be a pretty good one?

FYI I’d just read it online and save the trees!

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