PC Magazine Changes Its Business Model
Do you have a copy of PC Magazine? Keep it. Wrap it carefully. Store it is a secure location. It will become valuable. You may want to go to the news stand and buy more. It is guaranteed to become valuable because the print edition will disappear:
“Ziff Davis Media announced Wednesday that it was ending print publication of its 27-year-old flagship PC Magazine and would take the title online-only.
It is the latest of several magazine publishers to drop a print edition, as advertising plummets and the cost of printing a paper version rises.”
link: PC Magazine says it’s going online-only
It is a matter of survival for PC Magazine. Advertisers will go where there are the most views – and that is the internet. Perhaps, in the future, when you show people your saved editions of PC Magazine, you will have to remind them that there was a time when magazines and newspapers were how people communicated – in the old days.
Catherine Forsythe
8 Comments
Nick
November 21st, 2008
at 2:01pm
Meh.
What the hell am I suppose to read on the thrown now?
forsythe
November 21st, 2008
at 2:04pm
Nick, may I suggest a wireless card for your laptop and bookmarking this DogReader page?
Catherine
Gene
November 21st, 2008
at 5:22pm
So, what happens to all us folks who have another year’s subscription?
Russ
November 21st, 2008
at 5:28pm
Welcome to the world of “information aether”, where content grins at you like a Cheshire cat and textural certainty ceases. Welcome to the Internet. (-;)
mike
November 22nd, 2008
at 6:00am
So what happens to all the people who put the magazine together, the unemployment line???? Just what we need,, more poeple out of work!!!!!!!
Jeff
November 24th, 2008
at 7:24am
Can’t read this on a plane or while sitting in bed watching TV. I like to sit with the family in the front room and read with everybody else. Now just one more thing to put me in front of the computer. This blows.
HarryH
December 4th, 2008
at 11:06pm
It’s the wave of the future. We wanted a paperless society. The sad part of the decision is that we won’t read magazines as we wait at the Airport, or as we go to sleep. What the fools don’t get is that those of us smart enough to follow PC magazine never see the on-line ads because we use hosts or other ad blockers. Pity.
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at 8:46am
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