‘Devastated beyond words’: Cosmopolitan Australia publisher KK Press folds
Cosmopolitan Australia relaunched with Tones And I as its cover star in 2024.
Independent publishing house KK Press, which relaunched Cosmopolitan Australia, has gone into voluntary liquidation after just five years of operations.
Founded in October 2020 by Katarina Kroslakova, former editor of the AFR’s Life & Leisure and Luxury magazines, the company began the winding-up process on 30 January, coming almost a month after Cosmopolitan Australia quietly ceased publishing.
The closure of KK Press also marks the end of T: Australia, The New York Times Style Magazine title for which Kroslakova had secured the licensing agreement prior to the company’s founding.
Unfortunately, reputation is everything in this industry, and unpaid contributors and staff tend to talk.
As my old publisher would say…. “We publish for profit, not for practice”. becoming “the most widely read women’s lifestyle magazine” means nothing if you cant pay the bills…
Why she thought the target age range for Cosmopolitan, particularly this generation, would pay that much money for a product not much thicker than a catalogue filled with info they can easily find online for free is what’s truly baffling about this. Being nostalgic for the past is not going to pay the bills.