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I was given word that Electronic Gaming Monthly is now no longer a published thing.
As well, Mad Magazine is now a quarterly publication as opposed to its former monthly self.
I don't care enough about video games to give Ziff-Davis money, and i'm not sure the consumer for Mad Magazine is.... literate? So the lack of either of these publications does not form a storm over my head. Not directly at least....
Update: More bad news. Comic Book Distributor/Monopoly "Diamond Comic Distributor, INC" has increased their sales benchmarks and order threshold by..... a very substantial amount. Meaning that while if a publisher does not see X number of sales, it's books will not be distributed to stores or the direct sales market in general, the value of X has just increased to a much ... higher goal.
Putting a lot of publishers out of business and driving the price up on existing, well selling products.
Purchasing Amazing Spider-Man monthly now costs $12. There goes your readership..... just wallllking away.
More: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/01/diamond-raises-order-benchmarks-for-publishers/
There is sad news coming from the publication industry. Every day it pumps out. It SEETHS out and no one is noticing because no one is purchasing these things. Magazines. News Papers. Comic Books. Even Books. They are all going away. Soon the only thing printing presses will be good for is fliers, pamphlets and greeting cards.
Do you know why? Of course you do. You have the internet. Information is free, right?
Right??
No. You or someone else pays for a service and use this service via an expensive machine.
Those without will be just that... without.
It's the digital divide. And it's right around the corner.
Show me a world where the poor are without news. Show me a world where the poor become more, and more illiterate.
This is all happening naturally, of course. I claim no conspiracy.
I say from history, this is foul news for all of us.
As well, Mad Magazine is now a quarterly publication as opposed to its former monthly self.
I don't care enough about video games to give Ziff-Davis money, and i'm not sure the consumer for Mad Magazine is.... literate? So the lack of either of these publications does not form a storm over my head. Not directly at least....
Update: More bad news. Comic Book Distributor/Monopoly "Diamond Comic Distributor, INC" has increased their sales benchmarks and order threshold by..... a very substantial amount. Meaning that while if a publisher does not see X number of sales, it's books will not be distributed to stores or the direct sales market in general, the value of X has just increased to a much ... higher goal.
Putting a lot of publishers out of business and driving the price up on existing, well selling products.
Purchasing Amazing Spider-Man monthly now costs $12. There goes your readership..... just wallllking away.
More: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/01/diamond-raises-order-benchmarks-for-publishers/
There is sad news coming from the publication industry. Every day it pumps out. It SEETHS out and no one is noticing because no one is purchasing these things. Magazines. News Papers. Comic Books. Even Books. They are all going away. Soon the only thing printing presses will be good for is fliers, pamphlets and greeting cards.
Do you know why? Of course you do. You have the internet. Information is free, right?
Right??
No. You or someone else pays for a service and use this service via an expensive machine.
Those without will be just that... without.
It's the digital divide. And it's right around the corner.
Show me a world where the poor are without news. Show me a world where the poor become more, and more illiterate.
This is all happening naturally, of course. I claim no conspiracy.
I say from history, this is foul news for all of us.