Imagine Publishing
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| Type | Private limited |
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| Industry | Magazine publishing |
| Founded | Damian Butt, Mark Kendrick, Steve Boyd in 2005 |
| Headquarters | Bournemouth, UK |
| Area served | United Kingdom |
| Key people | Damian Butt (Group Managing Director) Mark Kendrick (Group Creative Director) Steven Boyd (Group Finance & Commercial Director) Jane Hawkins (Production Director) |
| Website | Imagine Publishing |
Imagine Publishing is a UK-based magazine publisher, which publishes a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines. It was founded on 14 May 2005 with private funds by Damian Butt, Steven Boyd and Mark Kendrick, all were former directors of Paragon Publishing, and launched with a core set of six gaming and creative computing titles. In November 2005 it acquired the only retro games magazine Retro Gamer, after its publisher, Live Publishing went bankrupt. Early in 2006, it further acquired the rights to publish a considerable number of titles including gamesTM, Play, PowerStation, X-360, Digital Photographer and iCreate, from the old Paragon Publishing stable of magazines when owner Highbury House Communications went into liquidation, following Future Publishing's withdrawal of its offer to buy the company, due to threats of a monopoly-investigation by the United Kingdom Competition Commission.[1] [2] [3]
Imagine Publishing is a worldwide multimedia content producer and currently has a portfolio of over 20 regular print magazines, 25 websites, 30 mobile apps and over 130 bookazines and eBooks published worldwide within the four key markets – technology, photography, knowledge/science and videogames.
[edit] Key titles
Key magazine titles published by Imagine Publishing include:
- Play
- Pocket World
- GamesTM
- X360
- 360
- Retro Gamer
- SciFiNow
- Digital Photographer
- Photography for Beginners
- iCreate
- Web Designer
- Smartphone Essentials
- Photoshop Creative
- Advanced Photoshop
- Digital Artist
- Total 911
- Linux User and Developer
- How it Works
- Android Magazine
[edit] References
- ^ "Imagine acquires 24 Highbury titles" (PDF). Imagine Publishing. http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/flash/downloads/press/Press20JAN06/IP_20JAN06.pdf. Retrieved 2006-07-18.
- ^ Daniel Farey-Jones (January 24, 2006). "Highbury magazines picked off after company's collapse". Media Bulletin (Haymarket). http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/media/article/537266/highbury-magazines-picked-off-companys-collapse.
- ^ Will Harris (2005-04-18). "Future takeover derailed by Competition Commission". Inquire (VNU). http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=22610.
