Magazines

Soldier’s tale helps explain long absences (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

6 Jan 2009

Korey Outerbridge was in Iraq when the idea came to him: He needed to write a children’s book. “We had phone tents when we deployed, for soldiers to call back to the states,“ Outerbridge said. Crossword-puzzle and race-car magazines lay scattered about the phone tents. Soldiers would thumb through them while they waited to contact to their families, the 29-year-old Newport News native recalled.

GameStop Offers Female-Focused Magazines with Fitness Games (1up.com)

6 Jan 2009

Are you one of the nearly 700,000 people who bought a copy of Wii Fit in November? Or perhaps you're one of the countless still trying to find it on store shelves after a sold out holiday season? If you fit into either of these camps, you just might be one of the "busy moms who often don't have time to spare for exercise" that GameStop is targeting with their latest promotion (via ...

Study: Online jewelry sales drop 24% this holiday (National Jeweler)

6 Jan 2009

Other categories that showed negative online growth this holiday season include: books and magazines (-1 percent), consumer electronics (-5 percent), flowers, greetings and gifts (-7 percent), toys (-7 percent), computer hardware (-8 percent), home, garden and furniture (-14 percent), event tickets (-18 percent), computer software (-24 percent), office supplies (-30 percent) and music, movies ...