Editors, On the Future of Magazines

“The question is not really whether the Internet creates the only possible justifiable medium for distributing text to readers. Late capitalism is built on unjustifiable expenses. They’re called luxuries. The question is whether the reader in the Internet Age will regard a print magazine full of reporting that took months to gather, printed on the world’s diminishing supply of paper, as a luxury rather than an indispensable requirement. And whether that will change what gets written about, and how.”

“…the Internet won’t replace magazines, but it might replace their readers.”

Read it at The New York Observer (here). Thanks Steve.