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'IPC Media' is the chosen publisher for my magazine. I have chosen this because the company also publishes 'NME' which has the same sort of genre as the magazine I am making. IPC Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation), a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc, is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.
It took me quite a while when deciding on a title for my music magazine. I didn't know whether to keep it short, abbreviated, long, a made-up word or a word to do with a particular genre. There were tons of possibilities so this made it very difficult just to choose one!
My first choice was 'Uplugged', I thought this worked well as you would be able to instantly know that the magazine was about music. However, 'Unplugged' does seem like it like it would focus on acoustic music whereas I want my magazine to focus all different types of indie including indie rock and indie punk. So, this would not work.
I finally chose the name 'inD' (pronounced indie). I like how it's short and I decided on a short title because a majority of the participants in my questionnaire chose 'NME' as their favourite magazine, and 'NME' obviously has a short name too. Also, by calling my magazine 'inD' you straight away know that the magazines genre will be indie. Lastly, another reason I chose this as the title for my magazine was that the name doesn't just necessarily link to music, it links to indie fashion too - this is good because I want to involve fashion in my magazine.
- There are many music magazines out there to buy and examples of these are NME, Kerrang, Q, Mojo, Smash Hits, Rolling Stone, BBC Music Magazine, Clash and Mixmag
- The genre of these music magazine is broad and includes indie/alternative, mainstream, rock, pop, classical and R&B
- Price range for a music magazine is usually between £2.00 and £4.50
- The magazines are mostly either published for sale weekly or monthly
- They are sold at various places like supermarkets, newsagents/corner shops, petrol stations and drug stores
