Well I was going to tell you all about Stack Magazines. How they recently put me on their subscription list, and how I got my first package from them a few days ago.
How Stack is a subscription service which sends you out a different magazine each month - how you never know quite what you're going to get. How that means it works as a sort of taster menu, encouraging you to try out stuff you wouldn't necessarily choose for yourself. And how they've got a fairly varied and independent list of titles so far, including Eye Magazine, The Ride Journal, Little White Lies and IdN. (How if you already subscribe to any of the titles on the list, you can let them know, and they'll send you something else in its place.)
After that, I was going to tell you how there's a service for both the UK (and how you can choose from six, eight or twelve magazines, sent out one per month) and the US (six magazines per year, sent out bi-monthly over the year). And then I was going to say that each package comes with a magazine and a couple of extras - that this month the main magazine was music mag Sup. I was then going to mention that to go with that was James Bridle's 'Immanent in the Manifold City' newspaper, produced through the brilliant Newspaper Club service (which I was going to be writing more about sometime soon).
After I'd told you all that, I was to go on to say that to go with that was a beautiful one-off print from Jeremy Leslie's magCulture: a subscribers' reading list of 26 of his favourite mags from 2009.
Yes, I was going to say all that.
Then We Made This beat me to it. (Damn it).
It was on my blog’s to-do list too. In fact it was there for months, I have a great magazinothèque thanks to Stack now.
Posted by: Loïc | 15 February 2010 at 07:55 PM