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Magazine groups rely on sister publications to support weaker ones. So, Power & Motoryacht, which was up 29 percent from 2010 to 2011, offset other glossies and put Source Interlink up almost 4 percent in a year where 17 of 23 groups had ad page declines. Architectural Digest, Vogue and Wired each gained 9 percent, keeping losses by Conde Nast to 1 percent overall. One magazine in a small group carries a lot of weight: Intermedia Outdoors gained on the strength of Handguns, up almost 26 percent, and Departures, from American Express, was up 43 percent. SHELLY FREIERMAN [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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National Geographic announced on Thursday that it was ceasing regular publication of National Geographic Adventure, its 10-year-old magazine about travel and the outdoors published eight times a year. However, it will keep the brand alive in two annual newsstand-only publications, in books and on the Web. The company had been in talks to sell the magazine, but those fell apart after it refused to part with the ''National Geographic'' portion of the title, said John Q. Griffin, executive vice president and president of the magazine group at the National Geographic Society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS tough times send some publishers running for cover, marketers are running advertisements on the covers of some publications. The April issue of Scholastic Parent & Child, scheduled to come out on Monday, will carry an ad on the front cover for the first time in the 16-year history of the magazine. The ad, for a company called Smilebox, will appear in the lower right corner of the cover and carry the label ''advertisement'' in small type. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN the wizards at Conde Nast Publications recently marched a pre-press issue of Brides magazine through an in-house review, Si Newhouse, the company's chairman, wondered aloud whether a few of the letters on the cover were a tad too close together. As it turned out, they were. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]