Another one (print edition) bites the dust

Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Roseann

Ziff Davis has announced that the January 2009 issue of PcMagazine will be the magazine’s final print edition.

The magazine, which was started in 1982, has a storied history, but its print base eroded over the years as its core brand of journalism—news you can use while shopping for computers—moved online. It cut back from bi-weekly to monthly earlier this year.

The site will still be called PCMag.com, but the sub sites will be renamed and reorganized into one division, PCMag Digital Network.

There have been concerns about whether or not the issues will still be published as a digital edition. It will be, as explained here.

It arrives in your e-mail automatically. Just click the link to either download the latest edition, or to view it entirely online.

It is portable. Once you’ve downloaded the issue (which takes a matter of seconds), just power up your PC and view it anywhere, on an airplane, in your hotel room, wherever.

It looks like the PC Magazine you’re familiar and comfortable with. I know why you’ve stuck with us all these years. You like the magazine and you enjoy the format. Our digital platform makes it possible to deliver that same magazine experience on your PC. So you can “turn” the pages and view our features and departments as you do now.

It’s lively and interactive. Our digital edition will eventually offer rich media options within a magazine format. So, for example, next to the product review you’re reading in First Looks, you can easily view a slideshow of that product. Or while you’re reading a Solutions article on Microsoft Outlook tips, our PC Labs experts can walk you through the steps of some of those tips in a video.

Yes, you can print it. You can print as many pages of the magazine as you want.

It’s searchable. Here’s something PC Magazine print cannot do. Enter a search term and PC Magazine Digital will fill all the related pages.

A live TOC: The table of contents is not only a place to find out what’s in this month’s issue. You can use it to navigate directly to the stories you want to read.

It’s Green: You can actually feel good about the amount of paper, ink, and gas we’ll all be saving by not producing and consuming a physical magazine.

If you are a current subscriber, and they have your email address, you don’t have to do anything, they will convert your subscription to the digital edition. If they don’t have it, you can go here,http://go.pcmag.com/subscriberservices and follow the direction to have your subscription converted.

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