The Trend Continues. Hmm.

PC Magazine Dropping Print For Online.

NEW YORK (AFP) – PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only.

PC Magazine publisher Ziff Davis Media, which recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said in a statement that the final edition of the iconic magazine would be the January 2009 issue.

Ziff Davis said PC Magazine, which has suffered a steep drop in advertising as scores of competing publications cropped up on the Internet, will go "all-digital" at PCMag.com.

"Moving our flagship property to an all-digital format is the final step in an evolutionary process that has been playing out over the last seven years," Ziff Davis Media chief executive Jason Young said.

The Editor's letter is here.

I also read this article yesterday: Pulp Magazines Struggle To Survive In Wired World.

Is the Philippine situation the same as in North America and Europe? I'm not sure, as this article about a science fiction magazine in China (with a circulation of 300,000) may show. Perhaps the issues the Philippines face are much different. Food for thought.

(thanks to The Bibliophile Stalker, from whose site I learned of some of the links).