Imagine Publishing

Infobox Company
company_name = Imagine Publishing
company_logo =
company_type = Private limited
foundation = Damian Butt, Mark Kendrick, Steve Boyd in 2005
location = Bournemouth, UK
key_people = Damian Butt (Managing Director) Mark Kendrick (Creative Director) Steven Boyd (Finance Director) Jane Hawkins (Production Director)
area_served = United Kingdom
industry = Magazine publishing
homepage = [http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/ Imagine Publishing]

Imagine Publishing is a UK-based Magazine Publisher, which publishes a number of videogames, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines. It was created on 14 May 2005, and quickly established itself 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 2006, it further acquired the rights to publish a considerable number of titles including games™, 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 British Competition commission. [cite web | url=http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/flash/downloads/press/Press20JAN06/IP_20JAN06.pdf | title=Imagine acquires 24 Highbury titles | format=PDF | publisher=Imagine Publishing | accessdate-2006-07-18] [cite news | url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/media/article/537266/highbury-magazines-picked-off-companys-collapse | title=Highbury magazines picked off after company's collapse | work=Media Bulletin | publisher=Haymarket | author=Daniel Farey-Jones | date=January 24, 2006] [cite news | url=http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=22610 | title=Future takeover derailed by Competition Commission
work=Inquire | publisher=VNU| author=Will Harris| date=April 18, 2005]

Key titles

Key magazine titles published by Imagine Publishing include:
* "Play"
* "PowerStation"
* "Pokémon World"
* "GamesTM"
* "X360"
* "360"
* "n-Revolution"
* "Retro Gamer"
* "SciFiNow"
* "Digital Photographer"
* "Digital Camera Buyer"
* "iCreate"
* "Web Designer"
* "PDA Essentials"
* "Computing Made Easy"
* "Total PC Gaming"
* "Photoshop Creative"
* "Advanced Photoshop"
* "Official Corel Painter Magazine"
* "HD Review"

References

External links

* [http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/ Imagine Publishing official website]