The Demise of Print

RIP: Commercial Aviation Report and Commercial Aviation Value Report

Immediately after acquiring two print publications, Commercial Aviation Report and Commercial Aviation Value Report, from Commercial Aviation Media (CAM), Reed Business Information (RBI) ends the print run while transitioning the content  online.

From the InfoCommerce Group blog,

RBI plans to cease publishing CAM's magazines in print and will transition the publications online to complement Flight's ATI news and data service. The publications will be rebranded as Flight Commercial Aviation Online and will cover the latest aircraft deal transactions, new aircraft and airline financings, analysis of airline financials, expert industry comment and financial gossip from the aviation market.

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It's interesting that RBI is abandoning the print products so quickly, but company officials must feel strongly that this market would be better served (and perhaps prefer) to access its content through the online ATI service. If anything, it's a smart cost-saving move.

RIP: Saltwater Fly Fishing

From an announcement on MidCurrent, a fly fishing  resource web site,

Morris Communications, which publishes both American Angler and Saltwater Fly Fishing magazines, announced yesterday that they will cease publication of their bi-monthly saltwater print magazine and reintroduce that content in new forms. Plans are in the works for an annual publication for saltwater fly fishers, along with an entirely new Web site under the domain SaltwaterFlyFishing.com.
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“The increasing importance of Internet research to saltwater anglers dictates that we place more emphasis on electronic delivery of our content,” said Morris Sporting Group general manager Steve Walburn. “In addition to creating deep online archives of material from all our titles, the merger will allow us to produce more original content for our Web sites, such as instructional videos, destination reports, and development of community groups.”