Magazine News Aggregated: NewMoon's $40 subscription. Barcodes for Mobile Phones. You have to pay for Vice's prettiness?

-SDH Ok so we have to admit that we've never heard of NewMoon, a magazine geared towards teenage girls. Then again maybe we shouldn't know about a magazine for teen girls. The magazine is shifting it's focus like many other mags in the business, from print to web which it says is it's biggest area of growth and will charge an annual subscription fee of $40 for online subscriptions. Save up your allowance girls. Then again it works out to about $3.33 a month. More... Publishers are doing everything they can to see if you're reading their magazines. First we heard about some kind of chip that would be placed in the pages of waiting room issues that would record page turns and give publishers an idea of how many people are reading their magazines (dumb shit), now comes word that popular magazines like Billboard, Wired and Car and Driver are quietly testing cell phone readable barcodes which link back to content on the magazine's website. You know what's next right? They are going to have interns walking through trains and recording how many people are actually reading their magazines. more...We all know the saying "Free is Free". Well for Vice Magazine, free is free unless you fill out one of their insert subscription cards and send it in to have the magazine delivered to you. But then again if it saves you time from going to the select locations where you can pick up the mag for free, why not pay to have it delivered to your house? But what’s up with the sub off from the same magazine that asked you not to subscribe? Why now? "Vice says the magazine is so pretty, readers take stacks of free copies from these boutiques, subverting the key part of their distribution model" [More...]