Domino is latest magazine to fall

Source: Crain's

Domino just became the latest magazine to fall as the publishing industry tumbles. The four-year-old title on living in style will cease publication with its March issue, owner Condé Nast announced Wednesday.

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A spokeswoman for the magazine would not comment on the number of jobs that will be lost, but said that some of the business and editorial staff will move to other publications. Editor Deborah Needleman and publisher Beth Brenner will both be leaving the company.

Ad pages for Domino fell 4% to 695 in 2008 compared with a year earlier, though ad revenue increased more than 20% to $60 million, according to Publishers Information Bureau.

The economy has been particularly hard on the home sector and, by association, shelter publications. Last November, Cottage Living, published by Time Inc., folded, following 26-year-old Home magazine, published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. Earlier in 2008, Condé Nast’s House & Garden and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s Blueprint were shut down.

Americans are foregoing furniture purchases and home re-decorating in order to focus on necessities like putting food on the table. Earlier this week, Home Depot announced it will eliminate 7,000 jobs and close its Expo Design Centers, including three in the New York area. Last month, 30-year-old Depression Modern, a high-end furniture store in Soho, closed its doors.




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HAH! It's funny because people are getting laid off!

:sarcasm:

No wonder it failed. :shrug:

They offered different give-aways each month to get some of the new items for your home. I've never bought it. I would read it in waiting rooms and old copies left in the apt. laundry room.

And a nicer mag like this folds. Pah.

I just renewed a few months ago -- doubt they'll give refunds to subscribers.

I have been laid off when everyone else was working and got so tired of hearing just go get another job..when there was not another job for me.
I guess this is the one time that I am in a better spot. I now cannot work due to health and am on SSD , its not much I'll tell ya, but better than nothing.
My partner was outsource twice in 2002, we lost pretty much everything
We have sort of recovered, we were not extravagant by any means and we have cut to the bone, we did buy a home while many were buying bigger and more expensive
We found a place that was abandoned and foreclosed on.
It happens to be large doublewide in so so condition on land in the countryside.
Its ironic that folks said well why do you leave the city? Why live in Green Acres.
WE SAID that the economy was going to tank and we wanted to be were we could survive and grow food and be able to be around to help pick up the pieces.
While no one really laughed at us, they did scoff a bit.
Some times I wish I were not right all the time. Well not all the time but it seems to be that we were just a head of the curve.
The house had already been devalued from 110,000 to 75,000, we insisted on a fixed rate loan just enough to cover the cost. I wanted to be able to buy a large enough mortgage to install solar power, I still wish that, but then again our payments are low enough that if god forbid partner lost job again, we could just barely make the payments and still have the gardens for food. My heart goes out to all of those going to lose their jobs, insurance and homes.
I do have a suggestion for those who have some yard space..why cut the grass, start up a Victory garden there are kits(just checked the Victory garden site, but they have sold out of kits already, but look up other heirloom varieties to plant.
Heirlooms need less in the way of fertiliser and pesticides. Look up plants that you can add to your garden that will cohabit with veggies there are published lists of plants that grow well together, like beans and corn, beans fix nitrogen and corn needs nitrogen. 4 O'Clocks are pretty and smell good, the also draw Japaness Beetles away from your other plants and kill them but are not poisonous to beneficial insects. A garden will save you money and there is nothing like bringing in fresh food that you have grown yourself and you know what is in them.

I have been laid off when everyone else was working and got so tired of hearing just go get another job..when there was not another job for me.
I guess this is the one time that I am in a better spot. I now cannot work due to health and am on SSD , its not much I'll tell ya, but better than nothing.
My partner was outsource twice in 2002, we lost pretty much everything
We have sort of recovered, we were not extravagant by any means and we have cut to the bone, we did buy a home while many were buying bigger and more expensive
We found a place that was abandoned and foreclosed on.
It happens to be large doublewide in so so condition on land in the countryside.
Its ironic that folks said well why do you leave the city? Why live in Green Acres.
WE SAID that the economy was going to tank and we wanted to be were we could survive and grow food and be able to be around to help pick up the pieces.
While no one really laughed at us, they did scoff a bit.
Some times I wish I were not right all the time. Well not all the time but it seems to be that we were just a head of the curve.
The house had already been devalued from 110,000 to 75,000, we insisted on a fixed rate loan just enough to cover the cost. I wanted to be able to buy a large enough mortgage to install solar power, I still wish that, but then again our payments are low enough that if god forbid partner lost job again, we could just barely make the payments and still have the gardens for food. My heart goes out to all of those going to lose their jobs, insurance and homes.
I do have a suggestion for those who have some yard space..why cut the grass, start up a Victory garden there are kits(just checked the Victory garden site, but they have sold out of kits already, but look up other heirloom varieties to plant.
Heirlooms need less in the way of fertiliser and pesticides. Look up plants that you can add to your garden that will cohabit with veggies there are published lists of plants that grow well together, like beans and corn, beans fix nitrogen and corn needs nitrogen. 4 O'Clocks are pretty and smell good, the also draw Japaness Beetles away from your other plants and kill them but are not poisonous to beneficial insects. A garden will save you money and there is nothing like bringing in fresh food that you have grown yourself and you know what is in them.

I'm glad I asked them to bill me, because I haven't received an issue. Now, I know why!