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Everyone’s begging for solutions for the dismal economy – and no one more than retailers. But lucky for them, soon-to-be launched Specialty Insider will offer up insider knowledge, tips and tricks to surviving the fashion industry. Company Insider Communications Group, headed by former SVP and group publisher of Conde Nast’s Women’s Wear Daily Ralph Erardy, is hoping to debut the 52-page quarterly mag Jan. 25. It’ll be a fresh start with an initial controlled circulation of 15,000, but they might consider a paid model in the future, Erardy told Folio.

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A fashion blogger is taking her online posts to the next level with the launch of a digital magazine called Style Sample Magazine, scheduled to be released next Monday. It’s the first magazine specifically for and about fashion bloggers—meaning all the content is about, and contributed by, fashion bloggers and online fashion entrepreneurs. Its goal? “To recognize and promote independent fashion bloggers and reinforce the legitimacy of the medium.” Publisher and editor in chief Tamia Stinson, who writes the fashion blog The Style Sample, says, “I started to see the need for the magazine when I realized how many fashion blogs are out there and how quickly the community is growing.” Check it out.

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