Print is dying to the tune of a 5.6 per cent drop in magazine sales in the United States for the first half of 2010, but one video game mag is still going strong.
It’s nice to know I wasn’t the only one blown away by Wired Magazine on the iPad. John Abell, New York bureau chief of Conde Naste, notes on Twitter that 24,000 copies of the e-mag were sold in the first 24 hours. Check it out, you deserve it.
Retailer Best Buy may have had limited success aping competitor GameStop’s lucrative (for now) used games business, but it’s taking another cue from the video game giant – it’s launching its own video game print magazine.
Perhaps feeling the collective pinch of being in a dying industry, Conde Nast plans to do what they’ve been hinting at for weeks: Bring their magazines to the iPad.
The sad, slow decline of gaming print media continues, with the announcement overnight that Future Publishing’s PSW (PlayStation World Magazine) is no more.
Maybe it’s because I don’t really read newspapers anymore. Maybe it’s that I just never noticed it. But I didn’t realise that like the New York Times, Blockbuster has gotten into the bestsellers business.
Those of us with outstanding subscriptions to Electronic Gaming Monthly may finally be on the receiving end of a suitable replacement, should you be a horny hetero male who doesn’t like actual nudity in your magazines and enjoys skimming Maxim.
