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Red Herring Magazine Shuts Down
Makarand writes "Red Herring Magazine
is closing its doors and joining the ranks of
magazines that rode the dot-com wave and then crashed.
Red Herring's March issue delivered to subscribers two weeks ago
will be the magazine's final issue.
The technology meltdown evaporated the magazine's
advertising revenue forcing it to
lay off most of its staff and finally close doors."
Survival of the fittest. IMO they blew ass.
There are very few geeks who want to read things on paper (bite me if you're one of the geeks who likes paper shit). And this is actually the first time I've ever heard this magazine mentioned in quite some time, you sure they're just NOW dead??
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
...copyright needs to be protected. Bear in mind I do not agree fully with the course of action taken by the RIAA and MPAA. Then again, I don't agree at all with the course of action the P2P networks took. Pardon the tangent.
Anyway, my point is this. Red Herring might not have had information YOU find interesting, indeed not enough people found the information interesting, but the magazine would never had existed had they simply given the content away for free, sans ads, sans dead tree versions. Their message might have gotten out but it would likely have not been as widespread and it would have likely shut down a lot sooner. Salon is learning this first hand right now as well though I certainly lay some, or perhaps much, of the blame on their wasting a lot of money needlessly.
Instead of replying with the obvious, yet ridiculous, comment of "they should have found a better sustainable business model", why don't you offer a suggestion for a better business model. For if you are wise enough to question the way things work now, you should be wise enough to offer some ideas of ways to fix things in a way that is realistic.