Print Syndicate, an e-commerce store that sells printed T-shirts and other fashion and home decor goods, has raised $4.25 million in Series A funding led by Data Point Capital.
In 2012, the magazine added an online gallery that sold prints of the magazine's content at prices ranging from $395 to $3,995 depending on size and framing.
Nowadays, although recent polls show that 25percentt of adults say they play musical instruments, "there are so few specialist stores that sell print music, and they don't really make a great outreach to people except for the ones who physically darken their doorsteps," said Mr. Rocks, who also is vice president at Alfred Publishing.
Now Movie Star News, the company that sold classic glossy prints of celebrities, has sold its entire collection of Hollywood photographs, The Associated Press reported.
It is a glorious, improbable artifact that sold out its first printing of 40,000 and second of 12,000.
Before her hour-long performance, Madonna auctioned pieces from her personal art collection, including a Tracey Emin print that sold for $550,000 and three Herb Ritts photographs from her 1985 wedding to Sean Penn that fetched $230,000.
On Johnson Street, 19th-century storefronts mix with places like Smoking Lily (569a Johnson Street, 250-382-5459), a tiny space that sells hand-screened printed clothing.
In early November, Ebony.com introduced The Ebony Collection, an online shop that sells framed prints of 2,000 photos selected from the magazine's million-image archive.
Go to stores that sell animal print products.
Bruton maintains that fashion is readers' primary reason for purchase, and cites a recent story on a Marc Jacobs print Louis Vuitton bag that sold out almost immediately in London and prompted seven Grazia readers to take the Eurostar to Paris to buy one.
