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The post is mostly reprinting the introduction to the zine, including a remarkable exchange during the December 10, Uncontrolled Vocabulary podcast. As much as I love Steve Lawson, I will not and cannot support this endeavor. David Rothman : Because it is wrong to be doing a dead tree endeavor…. Honestly, I think information professionals should be pushing everything towards the digital.

I think we should be trying to abolish print journals. First of all, I love David, too. I never understand it at work when someone hands me a document they created on the computer then printed out. Beyond that, what Lawson says in the last quoted paragraph I left some of the post for you to read!

Want to push to abolish print editions of scholarly journals? I may have mixed feelings, but I see your point. Want to push to abolish print versions of my favorite magazines? Once again produced by the magic of photocopying on 8.

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The title for this July 16, Mr. No lap tops and no Kindles in sight… miles and miles of sandy beaches filled with folks on vacation armed with sun tan lotion, hats, and books ink on paper books , magazines ink on paper magazines and newspapers ink on paper newspapers. I was once again like a kid in a candy store seeing all these people reading and flipping pages of their printed papers. I almost took a picture, but was afraid of invading their privacy.

They were not worried about putting them on the sand, the kids splashing water on them did not bother the parents, and when and if the pages get wet, the hot sun took care of that problem in few minutes. That arises in the second paragraph and beyond. The problem is not with print, the problem is what some folks who own printed products are doing to print, in the state of panic they are passing through.

Case in point, USA Today newspaper. I picked up the paper yesterday and went to the beach to read it. On the front page they told me about my hero Superman, however they wanted me to go to their website to see the comic strip serial. To rub it in, on the front page of the Life section they showed me Superman again announcing his new adventure, but yet again it was only a teaser asking me to go to the website.

That is the problem with most of the print products now-a-days. The folks behind some of our papers and magazines are in the process of committing suicide. Print is not dying, it is being killed. Those folks do not believe that their printed product is enough or can deliver a separate experience on its own. When reading a newspaper or a magazine is no longer a complete experience no matter what type of experience it is going to be and you have to go other places to finish the experience, there lies the heart of the problem…. People are moving away from print because print is moving away from them.

In our search for the new publishing model we have lost our focus on the total reader experience with the total product at hand. The experience should start and end at the medium at hand…. For print to survive print folks have to focus on fulfilling my experience in print before sending me other places. It is the printed product that I have with me on the beach.

I do not have to go any other place to read about my Superman…. In my eyes, PC Magazine died long before it shuttered the print edition because the magazine became little more than a set of teases for the web version a situation that was getting better before the shutdown. Is PC Magazine still around? With most other magazines I read too many of them! The very next post at Mr. Magazine , on July 21, , as Husni ended his vacation. What type of reading experience you are going to have if you have to stop reading and head to the web after few paragraphs, and how often are you going to come back?

Print folks have lost confidence in their printed product and they are trying to create a hybrid product that sooner or later will eliminate the need for the same product they are attempting to save. If I do not need something, then for sure it is not going to be sufficient for me. I am not saying that our printed products should not have websites and that we should not use the brand we have to the max.


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What I am saying is that the printed product should be sufficient for a whole experience for the reader; the web should provide a different whole experience; the same is true for any other medium invented or to be invented. None of the media should be short-changed to provide a link to the other medium…. I think this is right on the money. If a magazine becomes a set of entry points, where I need to be on the web to really get the content, well, then, why does the magazine exist? For all my disdain of Wired , the print magazine works as its own package with complete features—significantly better, in my opinion, than the website does.

With fewer ad dollars and more places to advertise, some titles had to die—while others, many in new niches, are being born. People buy magazines—people subscribe to magazines—as curated packages of stories and ads, focused on an area or with an approach the subscribers and readers enjoy. And why should they? Even newsweeklies—at least the good ones—long ago became primarily ways to make sense of it all, not to provide the latest facts.

The title of this February 13, post at Mr. Meanwhile, revenue was down about 8. But in , looking at magazines, the average subscription price was down 8. That means we are still focusing on the advertising driven model as the major source of revenue. But in , newsstands had declined slightly to 8. That left Harrington hopes to see more rationality in subscription pricing and a more balanced financial model, noting that newsstands say more about the worth of a magazine—because you actually have to pay for it. I thought about that and my own recent experiences getting subscription offers so low that they can only be to boost troubled rate bases.

I still remember the time I was offered a year of Time Magazine for whatever price I wanted to pay—but at the time, I was in a highly desirable zipcode.

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Maybe I still am: Just a few weeks ago, I received an offer from Inc. Since they misguessed the supposed demographic badly— Inc. How widespread is this lack of self-worth? March 29 added Prevention , Automobile and Motor Trend. If I wanted The Economist for a full year of 51 issues, using 3, of the 9,odd USAirways miles that will just go away otherwise is a pretty good deal—for me.

What do I find, if we assume 1.

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Ah, but that was a February mailing. Some die every year; others are born, generally at a faster clip than the deaths.

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Maybe the total number of print magazines should decline—and maybe by quite a bit. Possible in some cases, unlikely on the whole—and almost certainly not an effective revenue replacement. On the other hand, few of the magazines I subscribe to have millions of subscribers. How many of those am I likely to stick with—how many do I feel attached to? The neat thing about magazines is that there are specialty magazines for every specialty. At least two, probably several.


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Love cars? A slew of choices. Even more than for magazines, the picture with newspapers is fuzzy and complex. Newspapers were hit harder than magazines by advertising changes. Newspapers have higher print and distribution costs relative to revenue than magazines do. Too many newspapers were phoning it in: Relying on wire services for most content, with a smidgen of local items and lots of syndicated features, assuming local merchants would keep them not only healthy but extremely profitable.

The problem with extreme profitability: Newspapers became desirable purchases, and companies paid way too much for them, going deeply into debt to acquire these money fountains. Lots of younger people do read daily papers—but a smaller percentage than used to. Some of that decline is intentional. The paper we take, for example, deliberately shed more than half its circulation, outside its core region, because it no longer made economic sense to subsidize that circulation.

One offers items from more than a dozen posts from Reflections of a Newsosaur , the odd blog from Alan D.

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The second offers a broader mix of facts and opinion. These items come from Reflections of a Newsosaur newsosaur. I provide the dates, not necessarily the full titles of individual posts. Once I realized that Mutter wants to see print newspapers but not the newspaper field go away, the posts make more sense…but not his habit of equating revenue with ad sales, since some newspapers have siginificant subscription revenue.

January 29, As examined in a four-part series beginning February 1, , that would be suicidal. Only those that are already going bankrupt not the case for most papers could make the transition, and even those would have to cut half their news staff. He does straight-line projection to have print newspaper readership disappearing altogether in a generation—but somehow believes brand recognition, big staffs, marketing power and big advertising staffs give newspaper publishers an edge over all online competitors.