img alt="EGM - Image 1" title="EGM - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126536/egm-streetfighter4_qjgenth.jpg?104649" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"Is the magazine industry already bust? You've probably heard a lot of print media transferring to the e-format due to various reasons (mostly because of the lack of demand and rising printing costs), and it looks like a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ziff-davis/8900" id="tag" title=""Ziff Davis/a Media's very own flagship publication, PC Magazine, is wrought by the same problems.brbrEarlier this week, the publication firm has revealed their plans to cease print circulation of PC Magazine, and opt for the e-publication approach. "The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn t there anymore," said Ziff Davis chief executive Jason Young.brbrThe move to digital content won't be all that rough on the publication since they already have an online counterpart of the magazine in the form of PCMag.com. With this foundation already existing, it's now all a matter of getting more content online.brbrFurthermore, Young also noted that they're currently considering a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/electronic-gaming-monthly/3710" id="tag" title=""Electronic Gaming Monthly/a to follow suit. The decision to halt printing for a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/egm/452" id="tag" title="Electronic Gaming Monthly"EGM/a and publish it online instead isn't finalized yet - the matter will have to be settled by next year.brbrFor the record, EGM is the last remaining video game magazine being circulated in print by Ziff Davis.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Dan Hsu officially announces resignation from Ziff Davis and 1UP" href="http://www.qj.net/Dan-Hsu-officially-announces-resignation-from-Ziff-Davis-and-1UP/pg/49/aid/117991"Dan Hsu officially announces resignation from Ziff Davis and 1UP/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Ziff Davis Media files for bankcruptcy due to overwhelming debt" href="http://www.qj.net/Ziff-Davis-Media-files-for-bankcruptcy-due-to-overwhelming-debt/pg/49/aid/115284"Ziff Davis Media files for bankcruptcy protection due to overwhelming debt/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=VWNBvHgJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=LoD7ae54"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=bCWPFpRe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/6_p7JlWptwI" height="1" width="1"/

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Long running consumer mag may face axe by end of year

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/media/20mag.html?_r=3"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/egm.logo.490.2.jpg" //abr / div align="left"As we near the end of a year that saw outspoken ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/egm"EGM/a /emeditor-in-chief Dan "Shoe" Hsu a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/11/dan-shoe-hsu-ends-long-career-at-ziff-davis/"resign his post/a, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/media/20mag.html?_r=3"emThe New York Times/em/aem /emquotes publisher Ziff-Davis as "considering" a course of action that would take the prominent print mag online only. The news comes in an article about ZD's decision to make a similar move with 27-year-old flagship publication, emPC Magazine.br /br //emZiff-Davis chief executive, James Young, revealed to the paper that an online-only future for emEGM /emis a possibility, but that the publisher "would not make a decision before the end of the year." Recent months have seen the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/05/gfws-jeff-green-leaves-1up-for-sims-team/"departure/a of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/18/shawn-elliot-leaves-1up-gfw-radio/"staffers/a from 1UP, emEGM's /emonline sister publication, and a a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/13/print-gaming-journalism-on-its-way-out-says-1ups-cox/"frank admission/a of the decreasing viability of games-related print media by 1UP editorial director, Simon Cox.br //div /divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/new-york-times-ziff-davis-considering-online-only-future-for-eg/"NYT: Ziff-Davis considering online-only future for EGM/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/media/20mag.html?_r=3Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/new-york-times-ziff-davis-considering-online-only-future-for-eg/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1378746/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/new-york-times-ziff-davis-considering-online-only-future-for-eg/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Jtfbip5qxHxH_jBweJyZZFZsvck/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Jtfbip5qxHxH_jBweJyZZFZsvck/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=meVlHk3d"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=meVlHk3d" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=SuNWDJJL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=SuNWDJJL" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/BpFT7YTqsdU" height="1" width="1"/

Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff Davis, has said that they are "considering taking its other print magazine, the video-game publication Electronic Gaming Monthly, into an online-only format, but would not make a decision before the end of the year."

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21209/egm.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/Yesterday, publisher Ziff Davis announced it will cease distribution of the paper version of PC Magazine -- but is its lone remaining print magazine, veteran game periodical Electronic Gaming Monthly, far behind? According to a New York Times report, Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young is not confident in its continued publication, either. Buried in the story about PC Magazine is this snippet, which doesn't feature any direct quotes from Young: "Mr. Young said the company .../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=KLqSN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=KLqSN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=u7DxN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=u7DxN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=aAjxN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=aAjxN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/460062550" height="1" width="1"/

pHey Brian,br / Did you hear that a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/media/20mag.html?ref=technology"PC Magazine/a is ending its magazine edition and focusing solely on the online space? Sad to hear. I was one of those kids that grew up having a subscription to PC Mag in the house, every month reading what crazy uncle Dvorak (plus those other dudes) had to say about something or other. SCSI. And Windows. Stuff like that. Although I haven't had a sub to them in years, it's always sad to see an end to something you used to enjoy. Supposedly EGM might be getting the cut as well, but that's a decision for next year./p pIn other news, how are you enjoying the LA Auto Show with a href="http://jalopnik.com/"Jalopnik/a? Is it all hybrid-this and electric-that? That's what I'm seeing based on Jalop's coverage. Good times. I wonder if the car show crowd is more or less smelly than the consumer electronics crowd./p pHere are some of the posts I liked today:/p pbull; a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093030/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review"Our Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Review/abr / bull; a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093261/windows-7-touch-control-makes-media-center-more-awesome"This Media Center touch control thing/abr / bull; a href="http://gizmodo.com/5090988/mobile-browser-battlemodo-which-phones-deliver-the-real-web"Our Mobile web browser Battlemodo/a (spoiler alert, they're all poopy)/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=367badd61196f910fa35e93206900613" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=367badd61196f910fa35e93206900613" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=e3NWHLdT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=EQPIUEWj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=PNFsav6j"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=PNFsav6j" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=sD3oN2nf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=sD3oN2nf" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/eTvR8KXyFLA" height="1" width="1"/