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King Magazine to
close with upcoming issue due to 'economic conditions'
By
Richard Prince
Journal-isms
(April 1, 2009) After six years and 50 issues, King magazine, which dubs
itself "the illest men's magazine ever," is folding, publisher Dennis S.
Page confirmed Wednesday.
King's full-time staff of about seven is being let go, he said, and its
next issue, now in production, will be its last.
"It's brutal out there," Page told Journal-isms. "It's the worst
economic conditions in 30 years."
Page is also publisher of SLAM (on basketball), XXL (hip-hop music),
Rides (automobiles) and Antenna ("what drops next" in consumer
products). All are published by New York-based Harris Publications.
King reported an average circulation of 173,530 for the six months
ending Dec. 31, down 11.3 percent from the year before. Advertising, not
circulation, was the problem, Page said. The publication's revenue
staples were automobile and alcohol ads.
Page said XXL, as a music magazine, did not have the same problem and
that there were "no concerns" about it folding.
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The
14th annual edition of "The Buying Power of Black America" has been released
by Target Market News. The one-of-a-kind report is the most quoted source of
information on how African-American consumers spend their $744 billion in
income. 
Now
in its ninth year of publication, Black Issues Book Review is the
only nationally distributed magazine devoted exclusively to covering the
latest news and reviews on black books. BIBR also provides
up-to-date news on forthcoming author signings, book fairs and book
clubs.
