When starting this blog, we did some research to find print publications that moved from print to online. Towards the tail end of that research, I came across three blogs that follow this topic. They are similar in nature to what we are doing here, but have enough differences that I think this blog is still worth maintaining (and those blogs are certainly worth reading).
- Newspaper Death Watch.
As it names implies, this blog follows the struggling newspaper
industry. The author, Paul Gillin, says, "I’ve spent 25 years
in technology journalism, the
first 17 of them in print. Since 1999, I’ve worked principally online.
That experience has taught me about the tectonic shifts that are taking
place in the media world, changes that will ultimately destroy 95% of
American major metropolitan newspapers."
- Magazine Death Pool. If you were familiar with the Magazine Death Pool blog and then read our blog, you'd probably think we stole some of its ideas. It uses the same RIP label on some of its posts, but the author took it to a higher creative level, assuming the persona of the grim reaper (but also never identifying the true author). The focus of the blog goes beyond our scope of moving from print to online, but covers any magazine that ends its print run (whether it goes online, gets folded into another publication, or just goes away).
- Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age. Although focusing mostly on books, this blog has the broadest coverage of the blogs mentioned here, hitting on related topics such as general readership trends and other physical media (like the decline in the printing of greeting cards and lingering of cassette tapes). The author, Jeff Gomez, says the blog is a website for his upcoming book of the same name to be published in "late 2007." I am not sure if it will be printed or available only in digital format.
Each of the above blogs focuses on a particular industry—newspapers, magazines, and books—and goes beyond our limited focus on moving from print to online. So you'll see some duplicated reports between our blog and these, but our blog will also chronicle publications outside these three industries (such as journals) and those blogs provide commentary beyond what we want to cover here.
So if you find this topic interesting, I'd suggest you check out these blogs and hope you add ours to your reading mix as well.
