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How Is A Magazine Like A Department Store?

"I also felt in some fundamental sense that the problems magazines faced didn’t and don’t have editorial solutions," says former Conde Nast editorial director and "crown prince" James Truman in this rundown of why he left the glossy publisher in 2002, and what he's been doing since. He also says "magazines are going to be somewhat like department stores. They’ll stay in business, but you’ll wonder why, since you get everything in them from other places, usually with a better customer experience.”

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