Another One Bites The Dust

The slow and steady march of the printed magazine toward the recycle bin will be taking another step come January. Ziff Davis's PC Magazine's last issue will be the January 2009 issue. The magazine will live on though, in our hearts and minds... oh, and online too.

This seems to be the inevitable trend. As a consumer, purchasing a magazine can be upwards of $10 and I have to reconcile the ridiculous amount of paper waste I cause when I throw it out. As a company, magazine publishers face higher costs of production, not to mention trying to find ways to get people to the news rack to buy the thing, which is becoming ever harder in the age of the internets. Publishing online is the inevitable conclusion of almost all print media, in this writer's opinion, in particular magazines. Stories break on blogs and Twitter well before a magazine can publish these days, so their only relevancy is exclusives... which often get leaked on blogs.

While it is a bit sad to see another magazine I grew up (hell, I practically learned to read while browsing its pages) with leave the physical world, I wish PC Mag all the luck in the digital world.

Ziff Davis To Close Print PCMag, Focus On Online; Still Looking For Options For Gaming Division [Paid Content]
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