Long Live Independent Publishing
Have you ever read The New York Review of Magazines? In the new issue, there’s a great feature on the collapse of Indy Press Newsstand Services. Once the largest distributor of independent magazines in the US, ranging from Mother Jones, Harpers and ReadyMade to Punk Planet, Bitch and Tikkun, IPNS closed its doors at the end of 2006, leaving an enormous number of periodicals in serious financial crisis.
The article, Independent Publishing is Dead. Long Live Independent Publishing, covers an enormous amount of territory, talking to nearly all of the hardest-hit titles in the IPNS drama. My good friend, Punk Planet publisher Dan Sinker, is in brilliant form throughout, while former IPNS chief Richard Landry issues forth the expected. Tikkun’s former editors – Jo Ellen Green Kaiser & myself – are also included.
To read my initial reaction to the closure of IPNS, click here.