R.I.P.

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National Speed Sport News Ends Print

National Speed Sport News ends 76-years filling the hearts and minds of motorsport fans.

23Mar2011 | | 0 comments | | Continued
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40+ Magazines Have Left the Building…

Tuff times in the magazine biz. These 40+ magazines gone but not forgotten.

18Mar2011 | | 4 comments | | Continued
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Car Collector Investor Timothy Durham Arrested

Car Collector investor is arrested on charges of fraud. The magazine ceased publication August 2010.

17Mar2011 | | 2 comments | | Continued
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Amos Consolidates Automotive Titles

Amos shutters six automotive titles and rebrands Cars & Parts.

7Sep2010 | | 0 comments | | Continued
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Car Collector Future Tied to Investor Durham

Investor Tim Durham’s Car Collector magazine faces a rough patch.

7Aug2009 | | 24 comments | | Continued
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American Driver MIA

American Driver is MIA. What’s going on with the glossy lifestyle mag?

28Jul2009 | | 1 comment | | Continued
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SI Dumps Sport Compact Car and Truck Trend

Source Interlink has axed a number of auto-related publications including Truck Trend and Sport Compact Car, and an estimated 100+ employees were shown the door. Among the biggies, that leaves Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and Automobile as lynch pins in SI’s stable. The publisher also has a number of overlapping titles so expect some form [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | | Continued
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What PC Mag’s Print Departure Means for Car Pubs

Web savvy readers made it easy for PC Magazine to kill the print version. Consumer auto pubs are not far behind while niche titles have more time.

20Nov2008 | | 0 comments | | Continued

Krause Fires Staff, Kills Pubs

Krause has shown the door to ten employees and shuttered three publications: Toy Shop, Toy Cars & Vehicles, and Vintage Motorcycles. The company has also reduced page counts on additional titles, limited travel, and froze hiring. During its late nineties heyday Toy Shop was the 500 pound gorilla in the collector toy segment. Diecast models, [...]

22May2008 | | 1 comment | | Continued
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Future Uncertain for Auto Aficionado

Auto Aficionado may be headed for the exit ramp. Sources indicate that the 6X magazine will cease publication and its subscriber list sold. Auto Aficionado has been challenged by ineffective circulation initiatives, fluctuating editorial focus, and a lack of paid advertising. Like a number of boutique publishers, going it alone with a tractionless lifestyle formula is no easy task. I [...]

6May2008 | | 11 comments | | Continued

How to Sink a Newspaper

“Information wants to be free.” Newspapers have allowed their content to be hawked and spread over creation thanks to TV, radio, and now the web. A fifty-cent investment in Today’s Edition is now a zero-cent online surf. And where print ads are actively sought out by readers, web banners and pop-ups are the bane of web [...]

7May2007 | | 0 comments | | Continued

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