Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only

paleshadows writes "The first issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) was published in January 1976. A few days ago, Herb Sutter (the chair of the ISO C++ committee and a long-time DDJ columnist) announced through his latest blog post that, 'as of January 2009, Dr. Dobb's Journal is permanently suspending print publication and going web-only.' This follows an earlier announcement that PC Magazine is to become digital-only, too, as of February 2009. To those of us who enjoy reading such stuff away from the computer these are bad news, as there seems to be no other major technical programmers' magazines left standing."

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[OrangeTide]

trees are a renewable resource. petroleum based plastic is not. And if you use bio-plastic, well you're killing plants for that too.

Would you rather keep pack of dead pressed trees with soy-based ink on them in your pocket, or a device maded out of toxic materials that is potentially chemically energetic if the battery fails?

No, the decision to use ebooks over paper books has absolutely nothing to do about environmentalism (unless you're an idiot). It has to do with instant delivery, convenience of weight, usability in terms of searching and cross referencing, the potential to reduce the price due to DRM (if publishers kill the used book market, then that's more market share for them). And mostly to have a cool nifty new gadget to support a techy lifestyle.

I suspect most Dr. Dobbs readers fall into the last category.