Breaking News: Jane Magazine Folds

Oh, No!
I used to have a subscription to Jane but let it lapse after a few questionable cover “women”. I guess they were doing what they felt they had to do to sell copies, but it was hugely disappointing and not what they were supposed to be about. That being said I still couldn’t resist scooping up a copy anytime I was out and saw a new one so I’m highly disappointed to say the least. What am I supposed to read now Cosmo, Glamour…there’s nothing inherently wrong with these magazines they’re just not my cup of tea. Jane was (at its best) smart, funny, edgy and kinda cool. I never felt embarrassed to be seen reading it (except for when one of the bubblehead gang “graced” the cover. But even at its worst it was still better than a lot of the fluff out there.

Does anyone know, for those of us who still have a subscription to Jane, what magazine will be coming in place of it?

I remember when Sassy and Mademoiselle folded my subs continued through a different magazines, Glamour and Marie Claire (I think it was MC)

Even though I hadn’t picked up Jane in quite some time (as I, too, feel I am past their demographic, age-wise) my heart sank when I read the news today that they were folding.  I was a huge fan in the beginning, and I remember back 10 years ago when they launched and my best friend and I thought it was the coolest magazine EVER.  We’d read that thing cover to cover every month, and one of my favorite pasta dishes even came from a reader entry for “insanely simple recipes”.  LaLa, I hear ya: there’s not much to read out there anymore.  They killed my favorite lifestyle magazine a couple of years ago, Budget Living, despite rave reviews from critics and media.  Cosmo is too insipid; Glamour is just plain lame.  Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar: too snooty.  I used to be a fan of Lucky Magazine, but I just let my subscription lapse to that one now that it’s just become one big book of advertisements and product placements.

Julie (and anyone else who currently has a subscription to JANE)—they will probably send you Glamour instead.  If you go to their website (janemag.com) they’re pushing subscriptions to Glamour, so that’d be my best guess.

LOL! I agree.

Kyrstie – I second that! Bust is a great magazine…I think it’s even better than Jane. I have a subscription to Bust and they have excellent articles and even my husband sometimes reads it.

I never liked this magazine, but Pam Anderson was the least of it.  I thought the grammar was questionable and the articles were not what I would want my high school students nor my teen daughter to read.

Meg- I still value my mags (can’t read a blog on the plane) and I was abig fan of Jane when it was ran by it’s founder Jane Pratt.  Jane featured a somewhat nice review of my book/blog which they said had a corny name, but good advice, last November. Now, I find those comments kinda of interesting cause they’re folding and TBF is growing.

I have a lot of friends who write for traditional publishing and many mags are having a hard time competing with blogs because we are free and we can post things a lot faster. It takes most fashion magazine 2 to 3 months to come out and by that time any “new” fashion news is old news. Also they are sometimes beholden to their advertisers, which can make it difficult for them to write the type of articles they would like to write because they are owned by big corporations that need to keep the shareholders happy..

Pratt hasn’t been involved with Jane Magazine for awhile now. Maybe that was the downfall of this mag.

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