Magazines 2008 coverage

The Guardian has good coverage of the Magazines 2008 conference held this week in the UK. I especially like the quote from Lindsay Nicholson, editorial director of The National Magazine Company:

“The biggest change is the number of magazines on the newsstands – it is just horrific out there. You really have to be quite remarkable – it is no longer good enough to be quite a nice magazine.”

The same can be said for newsagents. We have to become remarkable in today’s retail landscape. We came out of a protected ‘system’ and continue to struggle to realise that this protection is gone, territories don’t exist and our success is up to us and not up to the system.