It looks like the economy is hitting the magazine industry pretty hard. Although in the case of Cosmo Girl, the Internet may have more to do with its demise. It’s becoming more and more difficult to serve a print magazine to a ever expanding wired audience. Why buy the print magazine when you can easily get the same information on your new 3G iPhone?

October will be the last issue of CosmoGirl magazine - if you currently have a subscription with EBSCO and would like a refund on the remaining issues, please contact us here.

Looking for a replacement? Try one of these:

Seventeen
Teen Vogue

Conde Nast has discontinued Golf for Women magazine. The news on the grapevine is that the editor for Golf for Women was hired over at Hearst to head up O : The Oprah Magazine.

No worries though…we still carry several other golf titles if you need a replacement.

Check out our Golf Magazines Category here…

Then again, if you need a refund for your remaining issues, give us a head’s up (Fore!) here. Yeah, yeah, I know that was a stupid pun…sorry, I couldn’t resist.

In these slower economic times it helps to have an unbiased reference to help you see the future – The Economist is one of the best and most popular magazines that will help you better forecast trends in how money is flowing throughout the world economies.

Use the following Promo Code to get $6.00 off for any (new full subscription of 51 issues) The Economist through EBSCO. Please enter this promotional code at checkout screen to get the discount applied to your Economist magazine subscription.

Promotional Code: ECON7

Hurry though, this promotion will not last long.

I made two mistakes on Newsletter #64 last week.

Consumer Reports Money Adviser was written as having a price of $39.95. That was incorrect; our website lists it as $29.00 which is the correct price.

It seems my luck was doubly bad, when I also misspelled Adviser as Advisor. I apologize…not sure why I missed these problems when reviewing before release.

If you don’t currently get Oprah magazine, we have an exclusive offer on new subscriptions. We now have 12 issues of Oprah for $18.00. Our website shows Oprah Magazine at it’s regular price, so when you go to make your purchase please enter the following promotional code at checkout to get the discount.

Promotional Code: OPRAH

We’ve always offered a plethora of food, cooking and wine magazines, but there hasn’t been a specific title to cover beers and cocktails.

Now there is…check out the newly added Imbibe magazine.

You can also check out their reviews of your favorite libations on the Imbibe Magazine blog here…

I apologize; I sent the last ERRSS email newsletter with a bad link.

Quite a few of you clicked on the Crab Cakes with Roasted Vegetables recipe link from Cooking Light magazine. Apparently when clicked on that link it took you to the Onion Rings recipe that I was raving about in the article.

Here is the correct link -
Cooking Light’s - Crab Cakes and Roasted Vegetables

My oversized Dunce cap must have been covering my eyes at the time I was checking the email links before sending.

If you get our newsletter you will see that we just launched our invitation to enter the 2008 iPod Nano Giveaway. It is our way of saying “Thank You” to all our customers who have switched over to using the website to manage their account online.

So if you haven’t entered the contest yet, go here today and sign up…No Purchase Necessary

Enter the 2008 iPod Nano Giveaway

Sorry, EBSCO employees are not eligible to win the prize.

View official rules here.

Good Luck!

Want to be notified of other contests and promotions like this in the future? Sign up HERE for our newsletter today!

Some EBSCO customers received an email with a PDF attachment about 10 days ago (Friday, March 21st, 2008)…this was our first test for delivering your renewal notice electronically if your EBSCO account currently had one on file.

EBSCO Reception Room Subscription Services is making an effort to reduce the amount of paper we are sending out to our customers and could use your help. Eventually we would like to offer an exclusive paperless renewal notice option, but for the next few months we will be sending both to test our delivery and fulfillment systems.

You can ensure that you receive your future electronic renewal notice by keeping your email address up-to-date on your account and modifying your account’s email delivery preferences here.

We also would like to request that you put errssfeedback@ebsco.com and errss@ebsco.com on the safe senders list of your email program. You can find specific instructions on how to do this with your email program here.

For those of you who got an email the other day during our first test, but had already processed or cancelled your renewal, please bear with us we are still working out some of the bugs.

As for those of you who have not received one yet, when your renewal notice comes due we hope that you will find this new system much easier and more environmentally friendly.

Please always be wary of any attempts at phishing, your email will always have your account number included in the email. If unsure of any email you receive from us, you can always call us at 1-800-527-5901 to verify that we sent it to you.

Thank you for your patience and doing business with EBSCO!

The announcement was made at SXSW, and it looks like Harp Magazine has folded. For those of you who were not familiar with this publication it was a monthly magazine covering indie-alternative rock music and bands. According to Country Standard Time website there is a parent company bankruptcy involved in the situation.

To get reimbursed for the rest of your subscription to Harp Magazine through EBSCO, please login to your account HERE to cancel the subscription and request your refund, or order a substitute magazine.

I always get great business tips from the blogs of my fellow Internet Marketers. I found my recent favorite on Michael Gray’s Blog (Atlas Web Services).

Have you ever had a great idea, but no pen and paper?

If you have your cell phone, have no fear. No, it isn’t like voice mail reminders. Jott is an awesome phone/Internet application that uses voice recognition software to translate your words into an email, text messages, twitter messages, and even blog posts.

All you do is set up your contacts on Jott, and then when you call, it asks you who/where you want to send the message. Add your message and viola! Your voice becomes text and is sent to the appropriate contact.

Cool huh?

I love that you can set up multiple contacts in one group and email that whole group with one message. I also don’t like to text message that much, I just can’t seem to get the hang of typing letters with the numeric keypad thing. All I need to do is add Jott’s number as a speed dial key and I am texting finger-free!

It may not be for everyone, but if you check your email more than you check your voice mail like me, Jott may be a huge time saver for you.

BTW - Michael Gray (listed above) is one of the best Internet Marketing Consultants I’ve met – check out his services at Atlas Web Services if you feel your website needs more traffic or if you want your website to bring in more revenue online. But you don’t have to believe me – check out his recommendations on LinkedIn.

Attention all customers who have New York magazine in your waiting areas.

If you have children that sit in the waiting area, then it would probably be a good idea NOT to put out the newest New York magazine (2-25-08 issue) for public viewing. Lindsay Lohan is wearing practically nothing and the pictures are dangerously revealing.

I guess they want to sell more to the male demographic…that’s one way to do it.

You buy all these great magazines, but it seems you never have the time to relax and catch the articles that you really would enjoy. On the other hand, how many times have you gotten half way through an article and said “This article is terrible…I want my 15 minutes back!”

There is a website out there that can help you compress your reading time. It will also allow you to focus on articles that will be truly valuable to you. Check out brijit.com.

Brijit.com is an online service run by an army of freelance writers who review thousands of magazine articles. Each writer writes 100 word abstracts on each article to help you “try before you buy” the real article. They also rate the article so you don’t get sucked in by a great headline, then trudge through mindless dribble.

Magazines are not the only media they review. You can also find abstracts on TV shows, newspapers, books, blogs, and radio/audio.

Check it out and save some time!

I hope you had a safe and happy holidays! For a limited time, EBSCO Reception Room Services has been authorized to offer People Magazine at an additional 15% off the annual subscription rate. People Magazine is now available for $53.00 – down from $62.40 for 52 issues a year! Hurry and renew while this great rate is available.

As long as you are buying magazines for your business, you can include any magazine subscriptions as deductible expense on your taxes. So be sure to get your orders in before January 1st 2008 if you are looking to offset some of your taxable profits this year.

Go to www.ebscomags.com to get subscriptions to your favorite magazines today!