A little note came over the email transom this morning from Writer's Market:

Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy: Ziff Davis Media Inc. filed for bankruptcy this week, citing a decrease in revenue from print advertising and subscriptions as the main reasons. The company published PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly, among other technology and video game magazines.

I've subscribed to the email from these folks for years. I don't get them all read, but I always find useful tidbits and I go to them for product and software comparisons. They were (sadly) in the news last year when one of their writer/reviewers, James Kim, died in the coastal range in Oregon when the family got onto a closed logging road and were trapped. Anyway, it is an interesting "shop" of techies and geeks who turn out a web forum that I find useful. Yet I never look at the print version of the magazine, so I suppose I'm part of the problem. Anyone else use this forum, and are there others that you think are comparable?

Interesting that the place I learned about this is via a publication I had to buy in order to get into the email. I haven't updated my online membership (I did buy the book again) but the email still comes. There seem to be two models at work here--absolutely free web access, or web access dependent upon an annual purchase. Writer's Market is important to writers and manages to keep sales going, as far as I can tell, and has a mix of print and web users. Katlaughing is the one who convinced me to switch to the online Writer's Market.

SRS