Magazine Publishing Industry

Usually there are 6 categories or types of magazines:

• Teen (Seventeen, Teen Vogue etc..)
• News Magazines (Time, Newsweek etc..)
• Sports
• Music/Entertainment (Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Giant etc..)
• Women's (like Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire etc...)
• Food/Cooking

The publishing industry produces a variety of publications, including magazines, books, newspapers, and directories. It also produces greeting cards, data bases, calendars, and other published material. Although mostly producing printed materials, the publishing industry is increasingly producing its material in other formats, such as audio, CD-ROM, or other electronic media.

Publishing is estimated to have accounted for 231,000 jobs in the UK creative economy in 2013, with an almost equal split between men (50.2%) and women (49.8%), making it difficult for many people to find jobs in the industry.

Reasons why magazine sales might be falling in the UK

Social Media - With the current social media, we are able to find out current trends and recent gossip to catch up on the generation's gossip instead of reading newspapers or magazines.
Internet - With the internet you can view it online for free (proliferation of technology) - this being an option it means not as much money will be spent in stores on magazines. This option is also quicker and more convenient for different people and their lifestyles (e.g. daily commuters).
Less to pay - Viewers are able to view the magazine online multiple times and it wont require them to pay for it.
Expensive - The cost of magazines is rising which means that it costing people more money as they will have to purchase it, not only is the amount of the magazines rising but it is also not worth it as you are able to find this information out just by searching the web as they will have all up to date information that people will want to know about.
Correct Information - When looking at the information that is included in the magazine, it can sometimes appear not to be correct, this would loose sales as the readers would not want to purchase/repurchase a magazine if they were not able to provide the correct information.