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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
They're transitioning fine because currently, readers know how magazines work and which ones they like, and are willing to shift to digital. What they need to figure out is how today's junior high students are going to know which titles they like in ten years.
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Funny thing is, most people in this world have varied interests... they want some of this, some of that, some of the other thing. They also like any service that can do the legwork for them. That means one of two possibilities: Aggregate sites, like Huffpo, Google, etc; or aggregate software, which can be provided by a third party. Both can (and probably will) be controlled, to some extent, by advertisers. So you end up with a situation pretty close to what we have now, except transitioned to digital.
Many of today's special interest magazines will likely evolve into news sources for those aggregate sites and SW to pull from and deliver to others... specialty versions of Reuters and Associated Press, essentially.