Another great magazine bites the dust. Blender closed up shop this week after ten years of print.
The magazine was owned by nut job Felix Dennis until 2007 when he sold Blender and Maxim to Alpha Media for the tidy sum of $250M. Nice timing! Incidentally, some of the highlights of Felix’s career and life: jailed for corrupting children, the first person to say “cunt” live on British television, confessed to killing a man and then later retracted blaming the booze.
Subscription numbers fell 18% last year, ad sales were down 31% and plummeted another 57% in the first quarter of this year. Magazines are just becoming so last decade.
I still love magazines. Truth is, Blender went waaay downhill. I used to buy every issue and thought the writing was great. Now, not so much. What a shame.
Oh thank god! For a minute there, I thought this R.I.P. post was going to be about Kelly Clarkson!
I think it’s sad that so many good magazines are going extinct. The experience of reading one is so much more linear, defined, and concrete than going to a website. For some reason, my brain starts to crave that kind of “definition” after a day of having my attention scattered all over the internet in a million different places.
Holy fuck, I was thinking the same thing. JHC, do not scare me like that.
I too thought Kelly was the dead one. BAD post.
God, me too! Don’t scare me like that…
Geez, me too!
What did they expect would result from putting Kelly Clarkson on a cover? The fledgling boners of hundreds of thousands of male readers everywhere were just bitch-slapped.
Magazines and newspapers are over with. Why pay for something you can get free online? Just last night I was looking at Star magazine in the store and almost bought it but then I realized I could come here and read the same shit for free. I saved $3.49 thanks to Beet. :)
I still buy, subscribe to and read various magazines. Am I a dying breed?
KClark is still alive right?
it is sad that the print medium is experiencing a slow death. A day will come in which our children will not know what ‘paper’ is.
last summer my 5 year old niece was shocked and appalled to see that my cell phone did not have a camera on it.