With the death of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) a staple in the gaming space, it has left me wondering: is print dying?

I used to do a paintball magazine called Loaded. It was a great magazine but it failed for many reasons but one of the big reasons was that our readership and the paintball

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community are more inclined to read up on everything paintball related on the internet. In fact somewhat recently two paintball magazines went kaput, Paintball Sports Magazine because of a bankruptcy and Splat Magazine which really just moved to a online distribution called Splat XD

Is it becoming that most people find that the ease of the internet has them purchasing subscriptions to print publications or just purchasing a particular issue less? And with broadband internet finding its way into more and more homes can print publications compete with the rich media that the internet can provide?

I for one like to feel something in my hands. Something that now is out can’t be messed with unless its taken from me personally and destroyed, whereas on the internet someone can tell me about some great– albeit– inflammatory editorial but I have no guarantee that it’ll still be there. Once I have those words on paper, they’re there for-ev-er, for-ev-er.

what do you think? take my poll: With the death of Electronic Gaming Monthly, do you feel print publications are dying?