One of the leading bluegrass magazines, Bluegrass Now, will cease its print publication and move online after the April issue. The magazine started in 1990.
Consistent with other publications who made a similar decision, publisher Wayne Bledsoe lamented that declining ad sales and decreased print subscriptions were the primary reasons for his difficult decision:
"Bledsoe said the peak number of subscribers was 30,000 about 5 or 6 years ago. Since then, the magazine decreased to about 8,000 subscribers."
However, Bledsoe did acknowledge a positive aspect of the decision and he looks forward to continue the jam online:
"Although this decision was initially quite difficult for a retired academic who has lived by the printed word for more than half a century, I am truly excited about being in the vanguard of multimedia publishing in the bluegrass community," Bledsoe wrote.
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