A Turn of the Page for Newsweek
From The Daily Beast:
After 80 years in print, the newsmagazine adopts an all-digital format.
We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.
Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well as its successful global partnerships and events business.
Link to the rest at The Daily Beast and thanks to Barb for the tip.
PG will note hearing a recent and probably incorrect rumor that The Guardian, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, is also planning to cease its print edition.
Nasty times in the traditional publishing business.
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NOW they tell me. After I just renewed my subscription.
The guardian made a loss of 44 million pounds last year. I think your rumour is probably true.
“Exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night.”
Love the romance of print? Really? I thought the idea was to convey NEWS to readers, not become infatuated with paper. Maybe Newsweek turned into Newsweak, hence their slow demise.
Gee, if enough magazines go digital, maybe Apple will set up a special deal for doctors and dentists with waiting rooms… At least then the magazines would be up to date
One of my weekend habits is to sit down with the Sunday Times [UK] and read it cover to cover. A nostalgia thing. Even here in Bangkok, I can find a printed version, something like a laser printed replica. One of the negatives of living in the US is – no current copy of the Sunday Times – or any paper close to that content.
So it seems as tho I will have to learn to adopt an epaper reading habit.
Sigh.
I have a foot in both camps – paper [nostalgia] and ebooks/epaper [undoubted future].
When people don’t buy, publishers don’t print.
As much as I welcome digital publishing with widely open arms, this still feels alittle sad to me. This is the first major technological shift I’ve witnessed, and it does feel sad to leave the old way behind.
This is how it happens. People really don’t get a choice, the technology just shifts, and everyone moves to digital. Fortunately, I adore digital, not just for the convienence of it, but because it gave writers their freedom! But it’s still alittle sad to see things fade.