Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

We Love Magazines explores magazines and magazine culture with groundbreaking visuals and editorial contributions from around the world. The book features in-depth analysis of various aspects of magazine creation while, as the title reflects, celebrating with genuine pleasure a medium that continues to entertain, inform and surprise. We Love Magazines also contains the most comprehensive directory ever compiled of 1,100 international pop culture magazines and the shops in which to buy them. In addition, readers are introduced to ten pioneering, independent magazines that have created their own chapters for the book.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Essays: Great moments
• Ten Magazines
• The eternal spirit of adventure: How magazines evolve with the times (p. 11)
• Carls Cars (p. 19)
• McClure's and the Standard Oil Company (p. 29)
• Hold the front page: What the cover says about a magazine (p. 33)
• Coupe (p. 43)
• The launch of Vu magazine (p. 53)
• Frame (p. 57)
• The African Drum becomes Drum (p. 67)
• Omagiu (p. 71)
• The campaigns trail: Why advertising makes magazines better (p. 81)
• Rojo (p. 93)
• The birth of New York magazine (p. 103)
• S magazine (p. 107)
• i-D includes the Straight Up (p. 117)
• Apples and knives: Two generations of designers on tools of the trade (p. 121)
• Shift! (p. 131)
• The Big Issue hits the street (p. 141)
• Street/Fruits/Tune (p. 145)
• Your subscription has been cancelled: Twenty-four magazines that made a difference (p. 155)
• This is a magazine.com (p. 169)
• Raygun uses Zapf Dingbats (p. 179)
• The hard sell: Why distribution is the key to success (p. 184)
• Yummy (p. 191)
• Directory (p. 201)