I have just been passed this link to an article on Techcrunch concerning the demise of the PC World Glossy magazine in Australia.
This article is so chillingly supportive of my personal held theory that the print industry for magazines and even newspapers is in deep trouble and heading for severe decline.
"Anecdotal reports would suggest that many US magazines, particularly in tech related fields are experiencing similar readership drops to that of PC World Australia. Whilst there will always be a place (for the foreseeable future anyway) for glossy gossip magazines in Doctor surgeries and hairdressers, the market outside of gossip looks grim. And so it should: where exactly is the appeal, particularly in tech, of reading a magazine that reports on news that is 6-8 weeks old, or sometimes even older than that? The internet does provide an alternative outlet for print magazines, as it has for PC World Australia, however I’m betting that 2008 may well turn out to be the year of the dying print magazine. Greenies should be pleased though: imagine all the trees this will save."
I have also seen evidence (or should I call it proof?) that news moves faster in the blogosphere with Graham Rice, the hugely popular Transatlantic Plantsman pick up on my earlier posts.
Graham goes into much more detail on the individual publications but the consensus is that there is indeed a real problem.
Further reading on this subject:
A message to the marketeers of the garden industry
Is the Horticulture printed publication industry in deep trouble?
Paper versus Megabytes the future of printing over pixels, what is your take?
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