media - A new entertainment magazine in Shanghai

China has a very specific way of dealing with an oversaturated market. When almost everybody in making mobile phones, power stations and cars, more competitors join the frenzy, very sure that they will get enough of the cake.

And so I discovered a new English entertainment magazine in Shanghai 8Days. Of course without a decent license, but who cares about that nowadays?

I saw a hardcover copy a few weeks ago, forget to take it along and only as I was spammed by them yesterday, I realized I might be something missing apart from That's Shanghai, Quo, CityWeek and all those other magazines I do not read.

Their website has an ok approach, rather interactive, although it still seems to look for more people to interact. The producers, supposedly the former staff of That's Shanghai thinks there is enough room for a weekly on this booming market. We will see, I still feel that most of the magazine, included the add fees, are severely overrated.

The setup of the website is ok, but also very traditional and misses features that would be state-of-the-art today: no RSS-feeds and their writes still write last-century style columns in stead of weblogs. But that is easy to change.

 

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