The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166366   Message #4001165
Posted By: GUEST
19-Jul-19 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: fRoots suspending publication
Subject: RE: fRoots suspending publication
"I'm glad to see an end of paper and print. We are too close to ecological disaster to continue
with this much cherished, but no longer viable media format"

Really, paper is a long way down the list when it comes down to the villains of climate change. Paper can be made sustainably; and while I'd have to remind myself of the articles, I've read info about how forests can be managed with a virtuous cycle of cutting down and replanting in ways that are more carbon-absorption efficient than simply leaving trees to grow. Plus there's always recycled paper.

It's interesting that you describe print as 'no longer viable': the one thing print has going for it is that you can actually charge for it, so you can run a magazine professionally (i.e. commission and publish a whole fat bunch of in-depth features every month). You can't do that online, which is why there are only a handful of professional music websites. The few that there are are all rock and pop. There are no professional folk music websites.