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Originally Posted by Crowl
It does seem likely that the whole magazine free on the website thing is going to change as companies try to drive digital sales and will just want the website to promote the paper and any digital versions, the money simply isn't there for them to survive based on online advertising.
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Agreed. But the problem subsequent to that is most magazines are just fluff. Even if they stop putting their content up there, you can find the same info for free on other websites. And many times it's up way before the magazine is out since magazines come out weekly or monthly and websites can update instantly.
Of all the facets of the print industry, magazines and newspapers are in the most trouble as with all the news sites, hobby sites, blogs etc. they're just largely unnecessary. Forcing people to pay to get info they've already gotten for free online by the time the print editions are out.
And as I said above, they helped de-value themselves and ingrain people to get their content without paying by putting it on their websites for free for years.
Anyway, that's getting off topic.....