The Death of Print?

They wished.

Two recent articles in the press about the never-ending Print vs. Web battle grabbed our attention over the holidays. The first told the sad story of the death of jpg magazine.

Now, while we doubt not the fact that there are tough times ahead in print, we do still find it annoying when web-only journos do down print. As the article claims:

"8020 Media was founded upon the belief that a print magazine publisher could be viable if it stripped out most of the costs and created a community of readers to help in its production. Perhaps the flaw was in sticking to a print magazine as its final product. In reality, the print magazine was nothing but an artifact of the Website and the community that created it."

Now, as any fule kno the reason it created such a big community was because photographers wanted to see their work... in print.

The other side of the coin is this article about cuts in web-only output at major US magazine publishers.

Both articles are more than interesting and raise far many more questions than answers.