COMMENTARY--About two years ago, I wrote a controversial column entitled "Are computer magazines dead?" At the time, traditional tech advertisers were fleeing to more mainstream pastures, new economy ...

I grew up in a small town with a small library. The next town over had what I thought at the time was a big library, but it was actually more like my town had a tiny library, and the next one over had ...

The April editions of Maximum PC and MacLife are now available at a bookstore near you. Sadly, they will be the final print versions of these two historic computer publications. They date back to 1996 ...

PC World, the last surviving computer magazine from a bygone era, announced it would cease publication of print magazines with the current issue. But the rise of the Internet and digital publishing ...

More than a quarter century later, PC World associate publisher Jeff Edman's 90-minute presentation on the state of the ad market in the mid-1990s is a piece of publishing history. So if you’ll ...

When I was editor of PCWorld and spent endless hours thinking about computer-magazine covers, we had lots of theories about what people didn’t want to see on them. One was depictions of human beings: ...

I’ve been musing on whether or not to weigh in on the demise of PC World, a computer “magazine” that was once printed on “paper.” Founded after the acquisition of PC Magazine by Ziff-Davis publishing, ...

Two venerable computer publications-- Maximum PC and MacLife—are ending their print editions this month. The titles, both published by Future Publishing, are now available in digital form only, writes ...

COMMENTARY--About two years ago, I wrote a controversial column entitled "Are computer magazines dead?" At the time, traditional tech advertisers were fleeing to more mainstream pastures, new economy ...

“Pretending that the internet didn’t exist sounds like a preposterous strategy for keeping a print magazine alive, but it somehow worked. Maximum PC and MacLife survived—scrawny, but with a ...