Printed In--Well, Not Here Obviously
Advertising revenues plummeted for print magazines, thus niche magazines with low circulation went extinct; the surviving titles are endangered, threatened by the laissez-faire Internets of pirated multimedia. This too has effected the fate for print books; not only has disposable income dropped but the emergence of e-books has dawned, often late on old-fashioned retailers. It is far, far cheaper in the long term to spend hundreds on electronic devices to download books at reduced costs, unless file-swapped freely of course. So how will paper confront the digital monster that exists in another dimension? The answer is simple, the same as it is in many industries to avoid regulations--have it printed in tree-sapped China.