Behold the… BOOKAZINE
Saw this during a short trip back to mainstream consumer land. Stood staring it at it in a mixture of shock, confusion and wonder, like the monkeys looking at the monolith at the beginning of ’2001′.
If there was a big bit of bone handy, several shop assistants might have been bludgeoned.
Has anyone ever read a Bookazine? Is it just a way publishers can get away with charging £7.99 for a compilation of bits from old magazines by using a slightly thicker type of paper stock for the cover?
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, THE MODERN WORLD on Dec.14, 2009
December 14th, 2009 on 11:45 am
Money saving hint – wait til after Christmas and you can usually pick up the ‘Retro’ compilation ‘softback book/magazine compilation’ half price rather than the 10 quid it costs before xmas. Fiver’s still fairly expensive for a magazine, but hey, it’s a ‘bookazine’ which is bigger and heavier and yet has lesss ads and is thus almost worth it.
Of course, if you buy the magazine itself all year round, you don’t need to buy it at all. Don’t think it’s cheaper that way round though.
And yes, ‘Bookazines’ should be seen as a portent of the impending fall of civilisation, especially the Jamie Oliver one, imaginatively titled “Jamie”
Is Charlie Brooker going to be doing one? Then it could be no, it’s no good, even I can’t stoop that low.
December 14th, 2009 on 12:11 pm
What bunch of cunkers came up with this?
December 14th, 2009 on 12:57 pm
i used to work on a “bookazine” about 5 years ago
December 14th, 2009 on 1:40 pm
There was also a Jamie Oliver magazine called “Jamie”. It’s been so long since I last looked at the magazines bit I’ve no idea if that’s normal for nowadays.
December 14th, 2009 on 2:04 pm
Oh, maybe it’s just a magazine that was on the wrong shelf, rather than actually being a bookazine then.
Are there any plans for a UK:R Bookazine?
Or even just a pamphlet?
December 14th, 2009 on 3:15 pm
Haven’t even got enough material for a pamphlet.
December 14th, 2009 on 4:40 pm
I bought a retro gamer ‘bookazine’ a few years back. It’s on the shelf next to my Megadrive tips book. A relative gave me a £10 W.H. Smiths gift voucher and they don’t sell porn in Smiths so what else could I buy?
There’s an idea. Porn ‘bookazines’. Would be a great idea if the Internet didn’t contain enough free porn to fill a million ‘bookazines’.
Christ, I’ve used the term ‘bookazine’ three times. How depressing. No wait, that makes it FOUR times. Fuck.
December 14th, 2009 on 6:32 pm
they’ve had these in japan for ages, but they call them ‘mooks’. i don’t know if that’s much of an improvement.
December 14th, 2009 on 7:46 pm
Isn’t ‘mook’ a racial slur for an Italian?
I’ve been through (some) of the UK:R archive, there is more than enough material for more than one book. UK:R Christmas Annual. Go on. Might be a tad late to get it out for this Christmas, but the timing is absolutely perfect for next Christmas.
I’m serious too. And as it’s my idea (ignore GigerPunk’s post) I want at least 70% of the profit.
December 15th, 2009 on 1:13 am
Am I too late to trademark the “iBookazine360″?
December 15th, 2009 on 5:32 am
Trilby – Brilliant!
December 16th, 2009 on 12:37 am
The term actually makes me feel slightly squeeze as does the idea of guestimates. It’s so meek. Its like “couldnt possible pretend to be a book, but I am trying.
” if you cant read properly, or cant be bothered to read something that has taken more than a week to produce this might just be for you
” remember if anyone uses the term “drumming down” they are just being miserable abstards