Two more magazines take a dirtnap

I'm starting to sound like the Jim Cramer of Magazine Death.

I'm still putting my money on Hachette's Sound & Vision kicking the bucket, but another high-end audio publication as beaten them to the punch. The Perfect Vision, devoted to all the hi-def stuff you have been splurging on the past couple of years at Christmas, has published its last print edition.

The publisher announced they merging The Perfect Vision with their "music and audio digital publication" Playback. This is a sign of things to come, so take it from the Reaper, don't take out any long-term subscriptions to Sound & Vision because they'll end up sending you issues of Car & Driver after it folds.

Then in the beautiful state of Arizona, Item magazine was sent to a much less sunnier environment. The bi-monthly magazine that focused on the "good life" in Scottsdale, LA and Las Vegas was shut down by the parent company, now get this name, Media That Deelivers. No, that was not a typo. That's three e's in that word. If you type in www.itemmagazine.net, you get sent directly to the flagship title Arizona Foothills magazine web site.

Do you get a feeling there's a glut in the luxury city-focused magazine field? Whatever happened to Ocean Drive's Chicago magazine that was supposed to launch in December? Was there a reason they merged with Jason Binn's Niche Media? Perhaps the writing is on the wall for this category? The Reaper will be watching.

Comments

[BeautyGirl85259]

The wonderful thing about ITEM's death is that it really was a great magazine until "DEElivers" took it over - after that, it went DOWN DOWN DOWN...
Reading Arizona Foothills magazine is like having bad design and poor editorial with a PLETHORA of advertising SHOVED down your throat. There is actually an editorial in this months publication with the title of "Whole new Holes".
Wow.
And ITEM? It's a good thing. The design was great and fresh until the Poppy issue when it started to look exactly like ever other magazine out there (InStyle, Details, Vogue - al of which have claimed their design stature). And NOW! Arizona Foothills look like ITEM....

Sad but true.