PCWorld Magazine Is No More 164
harrymcc writes "After slightly more than 30 years, PCWorld — one of the most successful computer magazines of all time — is discontinuing print publication. It was the last general-interest magazine for PC users, so it really is the end of an era. Over at TIME, I paused to reflect upon the end of the once-booming category, in part as a former editor at PCWorld, but mostly as a guy who really, really loved to read computer magazines."
Figures (Score:5, Insightful)
Sad, but no great loss... (Score:5, Insightful)
For at least 15 of those 30 years, it read more like Computer Shopper, anyway. I mourned it a long time ago.
Good riddance (Score:4, Insightful)
Over the last 30 years, its editors got in bed with whatever comapny was big at the time and therefore apid the most for ad space (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, etc.)
So much for unbiased journalism. PC World, aong with PC Mag, epitomized an era where ad dollars literally bought favorable reviews.
What EA, Ubi, Activision and others did to printed gaming mags was peanuts in comparison.
Re:PC World - More Ads then the Internet! (Score:2, Insightful)
Agreed, even if it wasn't full of ads, printing a paper magazine to discuss multimedia machines that could better display the content is insane.
Paper computer magazines haven't made any sense for quite a while now.
Next up : TIME? (Score:5, Insightful)
Over at TIME, I paused to reflect upon the end of the once-booming category...
Tick-tock, TIME, tick-tock...
Re:Upgrading? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:PC World - More Ads then the Internet! (Score:4, Insightful)
I loved it for the game demo cds that came with it.
end of second era (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Sad, but no great loss... (Score:4, Insightful)
Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:PC World - More Ads then the Internet! (Score:4, Insightful)
Sad To See Them Go (Score:4, Insightful)
I used to work for a competitor of theirs (Windows Magazine), but I'm sad to see them go. Not PC World in general, but the "computer magazine" market in particular seems to have slid downhill a lot. As for the PC World staff goes, I sympathize a lot. I actually went through 2 shut downs with Windows Magazine. The first when we were called in by marketing, told we had a "great product but they didn't know how to sell it" so they were shutting us down. We went web-only and I remained on to work on their website. The second when a last-minute company-wide phone conference was called (never a good sign) and we were told that they were moving away from making their own content and would just rebrand others' content.