Magazines

摘要

Consumer magazines continue to display remarkable resilience despite difficult economic times and competition from other media. According to MediaFinder.com, there were 193 new magazines launched in 2010 while 176 ceased publication. The drop in ceased titles from 596 closures in 2009 is evidence that the magazine market has stabilized. This is not to say there's no turmoil in the industry. Changes at the major news magazines were significant in 2010. U.S. News & World Report ceased as a print publication as of December 2010. Fortunately for libraries, the text ot U, S. News' online articles is still available in aggregated databases such as those from EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and LexisNexis. Newsweek merged in November with The Daily Beast to form the Newsweek Daily Beast Company and is owned equally by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp and Sidney Harman, the man who bought the financially hemorrhaging Newsweekfxom The Washington Post in August for $1 and assumption of a pile of debt. Tina Brown is now the editor in chief of both publications. Some bloggers predicted that Newsweek.com would cease as a separate entity from Thedailybeast.com, but as of March 2011 both sites actively maintain distinct content. While rivals struggle. Time continually manages to sell print issues, maintain a robust online presence, and make profit.