Goodbye PC Magazine, you will be missed...
PC Magazine, one of my personal favorite "bathroom readers", has decided to switch to all electronic delivery. This is sad, because a great number of folks will drop their subscriptions to this now all digital publication, and what has been a large name in print, will join into the background noise of the world and may likely never return. And I won't be keeping a laptop, or anything digital for that matter, in my bathroom for any reason.
Notification of this change was in a subscription renewal form that looked cheap - almost like some staffer printed this on their old HP laserjet laser printer and what I got was a third generation copy of the renewal form - offering up in small print the news that the January '09 issue will be the last printed issue, with the remainder being delivered electronically - all for only $24.95 for the next 12 issues.
It's a sad state of affairs to see a publication die like this. If PC Magazine thinks it'll survive, well, I have some bad news - stop smoking the kindbud and really reconsider this decision, but this is a death sentence. Sure, it's a green thing to do - but print is still print. I have a bad feeling that more of this is to come as the recession continues. Hopefully Maximum PC won't do this...
Notification of this change was in a subscription renewal form that looked cheap - almost like some staffer printed this on their old HP laserjet laser printer and what I got was a third generation copy of the renewal form - offering up in small print the news that the January '09 issue will be the last printed issue, with the remainder being delivered electronically - all for only $24.95 for the next 12 issues.
It's a sad state of affairs to see a publication die like this. If PC Magazine thinks it'll survive, well, I have some bad news - stop smoking the kindbud and really reconsider this decision, but this is a death sentence. Sure, it's a green thing to do - but print is still print. I have a bad feeling that more of this is to come as the recession continues. Hopefully Maximum PC won't do this...
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