Comments on: RIP Gourmet http://sevensons.org/2009/10/05/rip-gourmet/ a pack of temperamental bastards Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:02:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: It’s Alive! Gourmet Magazine Comes Back | Seven Sons http://sevensons.org/2009/10/05/rip-gourmet/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 It’s Alive! Gourmet Magazine Comes Back | Seven Sons Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:02:55 +0000 http://sevensons.org/?p=354#comment-1398 [...] in October of last year we posted on the demise of Gourmet Magazine. Well, it’s back. Sort [...] [...] in October of last year we posted on the demise of Gourmet Magazine. Well, it’s back. Sort [...]

]]> By: Charlie Croker http://sevensons.org/2009/10/05/rip-gourmet/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Charlie Croker Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:38:11 +0000 http://sevensons.org/?p=354#comment-944 I know a lot of press has centered on the demise of newspapers, but I think the magazine landscape will look very different a year from now. Possibly for the better. The periodical market was saturated and already facing stiff competition from the web. Some thinning of the herd can be a good thing. There will be unfortunate casualties along the way. I think Gourmet is one of those. The number of magazines with quality design, photography, writing and printing is going to atrophy. Without some serious diversification I'd expect that even National Geographic—warhorse that it is—would be struggling today. I know a lot of press has centered on the demise of newspapers, but I think the magazine landscape will look very different a year from now.

Possibly for the better. The periodical market was saturated and already facing stiff competition from the web. Some thinning of the herd can be a good thing.

There will be unfortunate casualties along the way. I think Gourmet is one of those. The number of magazines with quality design, photography, writing and printing is going to atrophy.

Without some serious diversification I’d expect that even National Geographic—warhorse that it is—would be struggling today.

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