Comments on: BusinessWeek – End Of An Era

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:28:27 +0000

Ron – that’s a pretty good deal.

I’ll check to see if I can do something similar.

By: Ron@TheWisdomJournal

Ron@TheWisdomJournal — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:19:13 +0000

I get my BW by using airmiles! Costs only 1200 of them for a full year.

By: mariam

mariam — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:10:55 +0000

I read a lot of magazines and newspapers – online. It’s true you miss the tactile feel… but that’s what mobile devices are for

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:22:05 +0000

I like magazines for public transportation but books also serve the purpose.

By: Gates VP

Gates VP — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:10:38 +0000

I think that some print media is going away, but it’s definitely not all gone. Some magazine stuff can definitely be replaced by the web, that whole “periodicals” concept is much better served on the web.

CDs may be suffering b/c (all other things equal) we’d rather just have a digital library. I still buy CDs, but I don’t actually use them. They just get ripped to the hard drive and streamed around the house.

But books aren’t dying b/c they’re a better medium than the alternative. Maybe Amazon’s Kindle will change that, but unless they can really drop the price, we’re a long ways from books going away. If anything, I expect books to become more prevalent as the web helps connect readers to their interests.

Of course, I see Audiobooks as the next big ticket. Audible isn’t doing really well yet, but that’s b/c their target audience isn’t quite equipped correctly. Portable music devices lend themselves perfectly to Audio Books: no more CD stacks! And spoken word files can be compressed 2-4 times more than typical music files, so it’s really not a lot of space.

But yeah, I tend to think that mags are dead. I just let go of my long-held Maximum PC subscription and I can’t say that I’m missing it too much.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:17:27 +0000

I still like the tactile feel of a magazine even if the information is readily available online. You can’t sit on the dock of the cottage or on a boat with your website (well you can but its a lot harder).

But you’re totally right when it comes to information that needs to be current like business info.

By: CheapCanuck

CheapCanuck — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:58:46 +0000

I’m surprised print media continues to be as strong as it is, considering the prevalence of the high speed internet connection, and the availability of up to the second news in North American households. 25 years from now will newspapers and magazines still be hanging on? Even books might eventually go the way of the dodo, but I think they would hang on for a lot longer. Something about setting up under the shade of a palm tree with a good paperback that just can’t be duplicated with an Amazon Kindle

By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:36:12 +0000

BTW – Happy Valentine’s Day all!

By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:35:43 +0000

The Internet is obviously destorying the business model of newspapers (classified ads have typically been one of their core revenue streams and Craigslist is stealing that away from them, young people don’t read newspapers).

I always imagined that the exact same thing must be happening to magazines (as you’re experiencing). I’ve talked to people in the industry (I’ve done contract work for publishers), and they say its still going strong (they claim you can replace a newspaper with on-line articles, but you can’t replace the experience of reading vanity fair in the bathtub).

Part of me wonders if they’re just in denial…