It's worth noting this passing of an era, given that we'll see many more headlines like this in the years ahead. From Harry McCracken at Technologizer last week: Ziff-Davis: The Legendary Magazine Publisher Publishes Magazines No More. Excerpt:
This news has more to do with dead trees than electrons, but I can’t resist: Ziff Davis has announced that it’s selling its 1Up network of gaming sites to Hearst and shutting down Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. Coming around six weeks after the company discontinued the print version of PC Magazine, the news leaves ZD with no paper-based publications at all.
Which is a big deal, since the 82-year-old publisher had as long,
influential, and impressive a history of consumer publishing as any
company on the planet. Among its titles over the years, other than EGM and PC Mag: Amazing
Stories, Car and Driver, Computer Shopper, Creative Computing, MacUser,
MacWeek, PC/Computing, PC Week, Popular Electronics, Popular
Photography, Stereo Review, Yahoo Internet Life., and
many others I’m not thinking of right now. Nobody published more
successful mags read by more enthusiasts with a wider range of
passions, or made more money doing so.
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