Media News - Friday, April 17, 2009
Time Inc. owns up to goofed ‘mine’ magazine
Time Inc.'s experimental made-to-order magazine, 'mine,' shipped out this week, but many subscribers got a version that looked like it belonged to someone else. Subscribers to the free publication were allowed to select five of eight magazine titles, and content from each would make it into their personalized copy. Many readers got versions that didn't match their picks. Time Inc. Media Group President Wayne Powers apologized for the problem in an e-mail Wednesday to the group that may have been affected, blaming a 'computer error' and promising a sixth free issue, instead of the five originally planned. The print run was limited to the first 31,000 respondents who signed up online at http://www.timeinc.com/mine while an online version was available for another 200,000. Neither maximum was reached and signups are still possible. Readers can select from titles published by subsidiaries of Time Warner Inc. and American Express Co.: Time, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Money, In Style, Golf, and Travel + Leisure. Editors preselect the stories that make it into each biweekly issue. Several of the stories picked by editors from each title were up to two years old, and some could be found on the Internet. One Sports Illustrated story about soccer fans, for instance, refers to a World Cup qualifier match 'two weeks from now.' That game wrapped up last June. (AP)
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