Hachette Filipacchi shut down three magazines (Shock, Elle Girl, and For Me) before Premier, but Premier was the most read.
From a NY Post article,
Hachette Filipacchi Media is shutting down the print edition of movie magazine Premiere. The April edition will be the last. Although, as with the closure of Elle Girl and Shock, the company said it would maintain an online version of the movie magazine. Its monthly pace made it tough to cover the breathless celebrity scandals that fueled the weekly audience.
Variety reported,
Many of the company's editorial staffers will leave the company, including editor-in-chief Peter Herbst. Premier Magazine, published 10 times per year, will continue to exist online. Specifics on how many staffers would migrate, how often content will be refreshed and how many of the mag's regular features will be maintained were undisclosed.
According to Staci Kramer from PaidContent.org, the online version does not come close to matching the volume and quality of content previously found in the printed pages.
This site has a long way to go to become more than a monthly magazine’s online appendage. Going to the staff blog Rushes—“an ongoing conversation about the movie world with the magazine’s editors and writers”—requires going through two screens to see four posts from the last five days or so. The blog launched in November, had no posts in December or January, and—no surprose—has no mention of today’s events. Memo to Hachette execs: if you want this magazine to live online, you will have to do better than this.
So, this not appear to be a true migration from print packaging to online, but maybe only a weak attempt to keep the brand alive or as Kramer asks, "What remains to be seen is how many of these online-only titles will be around in a year and whether they will be advertising shells or real magazines online"
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