Print Magazines Ending

So reports Variety: Entertainment Weekly, InStyle Cease Print Publications.

“This is an important step in the evolution of Dotdash Meredith, and I want to be clear with everyone about what we are doing and what is ahead,” Vogel’s memo says. “We have said from the beginning, buying Meredith was about buying brands, not magazines or websites. It is not news to anyone that there has been a pronounced shift in readership and advertising from print to digital, and as a result, for a few important brands, print is no longer serving the brand’s core purpose. As such, we are going to move to a digital-only future for these brands, which will help us to unlock their full potential.”

Outside, here in Muncie, I have found it impossible to find a well stocked magazine section but with one exception.

But in prison, particularly federal prison, people rely on magazines - for entertainment, for information. Some states allow their inmates tablets. The federal government seemed terrified by any computer with an internet connection. Even now my PO seems obsessed with the idea that my only use for a computer is criminal.

Why is this important? If federal prison is not to stand for idea of punishment for the sake of punishment and needs a constant supply of those to punish, then it must help people reintegrate into the wider society and to do that it needs to let in information from the wider world. That information must now come in an electronic form.

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