PaidContent is reporting that Ziff Davis is the latest in a line of publishers to close a magazine, in this case PCMag, and go online only. It's an accelerating trend.The site says that Ziff Davis, which recently came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will focus on growing PCMag's online network of sites, which is led by PCmag.com and also includes ExtremeTech, Gearlog, Appscout, Smart Device Central, Cranky Geeks, and PCMagCast.
PCMag will not be the last with a number of publishers considering similar moves. It's a bold move, but a sad one in that it ends a 26 year run for the magazine as a printed title. PCMag launched in the early 80s during the dawn of the PC.
It isn't just magazines, of course, it is newspapers as well with Christian Science Monitor closing down and going online only.
Like the CSM, which at one time sold 200,000 copies, PCMag at one stage was publishing 400 pages an issue and going as high as the 600-page marks.
Some might say it has gone from that to nothing, but the other way to look at it is that it is publishing many hundreds more web pages each week with acres of content and community.
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Exchange & Mart had a very small print circulation with barely 20,000 and falling, but its closure
Last year PCMag closed in the States, earlier this year Computer Buyer went and today it is the turn
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