“International Data Group (IDG) is shutting down Macworld Magazine, the long time Apple periodical according to tweets by staff and conversations I’ve had with personnel,” Seth Weintraub reports for 9to5Mac.
“The Macworld.com website will remain open although as a shell of its former self with a reduced staff according to Miller, who himself is leaving in a month,” Weintraub reports. “Ironically, the transition from print to digital hastened by Apple’s own iPad and other online tools made the publication one of the last remaining Apple publications in print.”
Weintraub reports, “There’s no word yet on the fate of the annual trade show of the same name that has also taken a hit since Apple stopped attending.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Good luck and better times to all those affected.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Jim” for the heads up.]
I bought the first Mac (128k!) and remember the 1st issue of MacWorld. I have been a MacWorld subscriber for as long as I can remember, and my subscription was extended to February 2017. Closing MacWorld is a shock and a disappointment – as well as a rip-off. MacWorld was supposed to be available on-line. Just another lie. The only available issue is November 2014, the last print issue that subscribers got over a month ago.