Speaking from personal experience, I’ve noticed something lately. The more I use technology (and I am on this damn computer a lot…too much), the more I want to read a magazine. But I want different things than I wanted five years ago. Frankly, I want a break. I want to be surprised and delighted …
The Internet is a technology that enables people to go out in SEARCH of things. I’m all for that and love it to pieces. But sometimes, I just want things to FIND me. Sometimes, I am just tired of looking and typing and seeking, and I just want to sit on my comfortable couch and be surprised when I turn the page.
That’s why I believe magazines won’t die.
Tag: the death of magazines
Magazine death toll
279 magazines have folded during the first 6 months of 2009.1
NOTES:
1) Vanessa Voltolina, “279 Magazines Shuttered in the First Half,” July 2, 2009, FOLIO:, accessed July 6, 2009, http://foliomag.com/2009/279-fold-first-half (page no longer available, web site deactivated. FOLIO: ceased print publications in 2018 and shuddered digital publications in 2020)
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