Celebrity magazine sales decline

i thinking this could be a good thing, i'm not a fan of these magazines but atleast if you wanna read it going online saves alot of waste.

It has reached saturation point in my eyes. I'm sick of stories about Big Brother no marks and false role models.

Finally people are starting to wake up and realise that "celeb gossip" really isn't interesting.

I won't mourn their passing.

I used to buy a lot of magazines (not celebrity ones) but i only buy Edge these days.

So many just became list based, "The 100 greatest British guitar solos of 1983 issue" blah blah blah.

A lot of people predict that the web will kill out these mags permanently. I think that's pretty sad, reading a magazine is much more satisfying and relaxing than a web page and the overall standard of feature writing on the web is pretty poor.

Yes i agree that magazines can't compete on the up to date front, but I always got my game and music news off teletext daily in the past, so nothing has changed on that front.

In Depth analysis, probing previews, well written, well thought out features and honest reviews not spat out by fucking clowns (ign,gamespot) can't be matched by the web.

doesn't take too much knowledge of the web to read gossip online. I assume most people who follow celeb stuff are young and on the web most of the time anyways. Considering one of the main tennants of business is if you're not online, you don't exist, the drop in sales doesn't surprise me

I thought they were a pretty safe business as I assumed their target readers were not exactly web savvy...

It's not just celeb zines. For a long time now the print media insudtry is facing the harsh reality that everything is online.

I think I'm one of the few people who still enjoy reading the newspaper the good ol' fashion way - which is obviously a tad hypocritical considering where I'm posting.

But still, print media is in its death throws and there's no way it will ever be brought back to life.

I used to buy celebrity magazines all the time, but then I discovered websites like Popsugar and TMZ and there seemed to be little point in buying them if you can get the same information with even more pictures online.