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PC Magazine Goes Out Of Print

Source: Silicon Alley Insider

3 days ago

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Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay of seven print production employees.

Gadget and PC shoppers stay online now, preferring sites such as AOL's Engadget, Gawker Media's Gizmodo or CNET to print. Ziff Davis will follow that model and PC Magazine will become PCMag, part of a new network of sites called the PCMag Digital Network. The Network will also include ExtremeTech, Gearlog, Appscout, Smart Device Central, GoodCleanTech, DL.TV, Cranky Geeks, and PCMagCast.

Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young shared some numbers with PaidContent's Rafat Ali:

PCMag revenues are "in the tens and tens of millions of dollars"

Online reveneues grew an average of 42% since 2001.

Digital already accounts for 70% of the PC Mag brand's revenues.

The network is profitable.

PCMag brand revenues grew 18% in Q3.

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Comments (16)

Mfields1419,

3 days ago

Totally messes up my in-flight reading habits.

Ralphsaunders,

2 days ago

Its a shame.... who will go next?

Billso,

2 days ago

I haven't read PC Mag in years, but I was a regular subscriber from the 80s and into the 90s.

Michaelfidler,

2 days ago

Was it Bob Dylan that sung,"the time are a changing"?

Thomaspower,

2 days ago

very sad after so many years being a great title.

Drublee,

2 days ago

I don't think it will be long before print is totally dead...

Mugzy,

2 days ago

@drublee Although it has been speculated a lot on the final demise of the print media, personally I think it will be a while before print will ever go out of style. With devices like the Kindle and Sony Reader, we have almost emulated the way we read books...but the feel of holding a book or magazine is something entirely different. I donno, call me old fashioned perhaps!

Albert Wm Gosnall,

2 days ago

I cut my IT teeth on PC magazine when it first came out, in many ways it taught me a lot of what I know about IT and computers! Very sad. But how many more magazines will the Internet replace?

Iampariah,

1 day ago

That's a shame. It was a good magazine. But then, Ziff-Davis has been having serious financial difficulties for years.

Joebachana,

1 day ago

This might not have needed to happen had Ziff Davis invested in media-independent publishing technologies, which they resisted for years. Granted, its been a bumpy ride since the Ziff's sold the farm, but they had a few chances to integrate print and online processes and content technologies.

Joebachana,

1 day ago

@drublee Hey I blogged about this a short while back...let me know what you think: http://tinyurl.com/5kojjk

Joebachana,

1 day ago

@mugzy I tend to agree with you, Mugzy. Love my kindle!

Sumanth,

1 day ago

papaer to electronic paper transition... not so good. I find it easy to read the printed than using some electronic device.

Axelschultze,

1 day ago

The only thing which I feel is really sad that company leaders need to file Chapter 11 and bring many employees and their families in danger until to learn that they are history, that their customers went on in life except a few dinosaurs, that the world is changing... see http://www.ceaseadvertising.com

Spuds,

1 day ago

This is a sign of the times. The action is all online these days. I am sure we will see plenty of other print publications follow suit in the next couple of years

Eyebee,

20 hours ago

I used to get both this and a sister publication called PC Direct. They were full of ads, but many of them were useful, even if it did make the magazines rather weighty!