Lumina Media

rdf:langString Lumina Media

rdf:langString Pets, lifestyles, and hobbies

rdf:langString Magazines, books

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString January 2020

rdf:langString February 2020

rdf:langString Norman Ridker

rdf:langString About half of those mentioned in the timeline above are not listed here. Also needs to indicate date ranges of publication . Any noteworthy books or book series also need to be listed in a Books section. Finally, the navbox template for this publisher needs to be updated with more entries, so the template and the article are in agreement.

rdf:langString Integrate this into the History section, as proper encyclopedic prose, in the chronological order with the rest of it. It's completely aberrant to provide half of a company history in timeline-list form, especially since what is included in this section is completely arbitrary compared to the lists of publications below it.

rdf:langString Lumina Media was an American publisher of magazines, books, and associated websites. Throughout all its incarnations, the business has focused on the pet-keeping and -breeding market, though also with some other topical lifestyle and hobby publications. The original company was founded in 1974 as Fancy Publications (later renamed BowTie Inc.) by Norman Ridker, absorbing Kennel Club Books in 2004, which made BowTie a main competitor to TFH Publications in the pet-book market. In 2002, Bob Garfield of On the Media called Fancy Publications "the Time Warner of the pet magazine business". After some financial difficulties, BowTie was restructured as I-5 Publishing in 2013 under the new ownership of David Fry and Mark Harris, and took on its present name in 2016. Over the years, the company has launched, acquired, divested, or consolidated many pet-related paper and digital publications, including a number that have been dominant in their niches among North American speciality magazines and sites during various periods, including Bird Talk, Cat Fancy (merged into the Catster website and magazine), Dog Fancy (merged to Dogster), Dog World (purchased from Primedia Inc., and originally dating to 1916), Ferrets Magazine (merged to the Small Animal Channel website), and Reptiles. Lumina has also dominated the American market for magazine-format newsstand specials about pets (usually annually issued). In 2016, Lumina sold its book division – responsible for more than 400 paper books and e-books, mostly about specific breeds – to Fox Chapel Publishing, forming the new imprint CompanionHouse Press. Some other noteworthy Lumina publications have included Motorcycle Consumer News, Veterinary Practice News (later published by Kenilworth Media), and the first magazine devoted to animal rescue, Rescue Me (later Rescue Proud). As of February 2020, Lumina Media was dissolved and had ceased their business operations. A letter was sent to subscribers without explanation as to why.