[Infowarrior] - PC Magazine dropping print for online

[Richard Forno]

PC Magazine dropping print for online  	
Nov 19 03:29 PM US/Eastern

http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=081119192919.36ul595y&show_article=1

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.

"Since 2000, online has been the focal point where technology buyers  
get their information and technology marketers are directing their  
dollars to drive demand and build their brands.

"We have been carefully preparing for this step and are fortunate to  
have a digital business that has the scale, profit, and opportunity to  
carry the brand powerfully into the future," he said.

PaidContent.org, which covers digital media, said seven employees will  
be laid off as a result of the closure of the print edition of the  
magazine. The Ziff Davis Media statement made no mention of any job  
reductions.

PC Magazine is the latest US publication to drop its print edition and  
move to a Web-only format.

US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the  
United States behind Time and Newsweek, announced earlier this month  
that it was abandoning print for the Web and the 100-year-old  
newspaper the Christian Science Monitor announced plans recently to do  
the same.


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