The real problem with print as a medium, when compared to the internet, is not (only) that it’s slower. The problem is that it’s not linked to anything. If you have to choose between reading, for example, a motherboard review in a printed mag and on a website, very soon you’ll discover that the printed review lacks so much context that any comparison is unfair. The printed magazine, content-wise, is just like a web page taken offline: nothing more, nothing less. Is there any hope for the print, then?
Mashable on Print
14 May 2008
10 May 2008
Why do magazines arrive long before the date on the cover? And how will future historians actually know when we knew the things in them, if the dates are wrong?
Tenured Radical on Magazines