Amusement Park Buzz

Gibsonton, FL - Carnival Warehouse and Amusement Park Warehouse, the largest publications for the fair, festival, amusement park and carnival business announced today that they would be rolling out an all-new print edition for both publications in 2022. 

The company will be printing 6 regular editions plus four special editions: the IAAPA Trade Show edition, the IAFE Convention edition, the year end edition and the IISF Gibtown Trade Show edition.

“We produced our trade show editions for the first time in 2019 and they have been immensely popular with our readers and advertisers”, said Matt Cook, Publisher. 

“Coupled with the requests we get for printed editions of our online articles, we thought we would provide a magazine filled with our popular articles and information such as our Top 50 Fairs and Carnivals lists”, he added.

While the printed editions may seem like a step back in time, Carnival Warehouse, and sister publication Amusement Park Warehouse officials understand the nostalgia of holding the printed page and saving issues for collection or reference.

“Its kind of ironic that we started as an internet publication because we saw the benefits that the medium offered.  We were able to be fast and first with articles and our readership has grown to over 50,000 unique monthly visitors”, said Ron Weber, Editor.  “In contrast, the most popular printed publications in our industry were only able to attract several thousand subscribers, but we thought adding the printed magazines would be a great way to collect our most popular articles, and add pictures and features for those that love to collect them”, he added.

The new print announcement, made at the IISA Trade Show in Gibsonton, FL, marks a re-entry into the print market for the industry.  

“Unfortunately, we lost some industry-related publications during the Pandemic, but fortunately, we were able to continue to publish throughout thanks to our advertisers and supporters, chronicling the issues everyone faced in 2020 and 2021”, said Cook.  “We had so many requests for our special editions, we thought why not just go ahead and make the articles available to those that want them in print?”

Subscriptions for the printed editions, which are expected to hit mail boxes beginning late Spring, will be taken at the company's booth during the IISA Trade Show in Gibtown or online at subscribe.carnivalwarehouse.com. 


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