The magazine:
Biomedical researchers have lost a respected source of information--and science journalists have lost yet another publication for which they can write--with the news that The Scientist will stop publishing immediately. The news comes just after the magazine celebrated its 25th anniversary with a special issue.
Wow, that was unexpected. In a totally expected sort of way. Story here.
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A reader sent me this link, thinking I might find it funny. Why, yes I do.
Pew has posted advertising revenue analysis for major magazines over the past year.
I did not know there were so many of them:
Student science publishing: an exploratory study of undergraduate science research journals and popular science magazines in the US and Europe:
I wonder how much this means for Open Access journals, since the 'new' owner was all about that. He says that their big problem is that they were dependant on page-advertisements, I wonder if he just gave up on it because he thinks its a failed model, a priori anyway?
And to be clear I am pretty much blindly speculating here, not knowing much about the issue.
Its also interesting that one of the comments in the article was 'I would've bought 3 years of subscriptions to this magazine had I known it was in trouble, I was waiting for an iPad version'. News Flash, /every/ piece of print media is teetering on the edge, if you've ever wanted it, /now/ is the time to start supporting it.