It’s not just consumers who are playing hard to get: advertising is down 8.8 percent year to date over the same miserable period a year ago, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. With readership in such steep decline and advertising refusing to come back, magazines are in a downward spiral that not even their new digital initiatives can halt

- David Carr,  Wondering How Far Magazines Must Fall

(via futuristgerd)

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8 September 2012 60 emergentfutures
print is deadmagazinesads

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