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Metalheads, prisoners and credit card fraud
Like any e-commerce site, we get our fair share of fraudulent transactions. Generally they’re pretty easy to spot as, in our case, nine times out of ten they’re for heavy metal magazines (Metal Hammer...
View ArticleOur packaging dilemma
Our online subscription service really began as a bit of an afterthought. And it certainly started out slowly enough: one staff member at our Melbourne CBD store would send out packages for half an...
View ArticleHelp wanted: Copywriter
We’re looking at expanding the range of products that we offer on our website (stationery, in particular) and generally trying to spruce up our online presence. With that in mind, we’re looking for a...
View Article1,826 days of mag nation
With more of a whimper than a bang we quietly turned five years old last week. The main reason for the lack of fanfare (apart from our abiding modesty and humility, of course) was the fact that… well,...
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Why the New Yorker makes us look like rip-off merchants
About once every 12.6 days or so, we receive a nasty comment (usually on Twitter) from someone outraged at the cost of subscribing to some of our international magazines. Even before reading, we know...
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Where we’ve been for the last month…
Cue the sound of tumbleweeds, ’cause Lordy Crikey Moses it’s been quiet around here. What’s been going on? Well, lots and lots of stuff. When you’re a business of our size (i.e. tiny) and you’re just...
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Stop the press! We made a newspaper!
For a couple of years now, we’ve been kicking around the idea of making a newspaper of one sort or another. A last minute decision (why do we always enter into these things at the last minute?!) meant...
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Designing the perfect envelope
These are our brand new envelopes for sending out your subscriptions, featuring illustrations by our friends over at Alter (they won an ARIA for Cut Copy’s album artwork last year and are generally...
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We’re hiring! Calling all customer service Wizards
Yep, we’re hiring for someone to work part time in customer service. The job is based in Melbourne working within the subscriptions department from our Greville St. Prahran store. It’s a part time...
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100 Queen Street, R.I.P. 2005 – 2012
It is with very heavy hearts today, that we announce the closure of our Auckland CBD store. You might ask, why? Well, it’s a complicated question and there are lots of reasons that have led us to this...
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Ala Champfest #6 – 10 Questions
Our friends over at Ala Champfest magazine recently released the 6th issue of their wonderful magazine. Being a semi Melbourne based title, we’ve followed its evolution very closely, and get all hot...
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VNA #23 – Ten Questions
Small-format street art, design and graphic culture mag Very Nearly Almost, or VNA for short, has been rocking our socks off for quite some time now. Created by editor George Macdonald and art director...
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