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Resounding Death Knell For Magazines

Image by  Steve Buissinne  from  Pixabay                     “Q magazine to fold after 34 years” This wasn’t what I had expected to read on The Guardian’s webpage first thing in the morning. Now, I am not an avid reader of this magazine and generally, I couldn’t have cared less, however, this incident only solidified the claim that this pandemic has made the survival of print industry on the market hellish, forcing many publication houses, especially magazines, to shut shop. Thus began my pondering.  Magazines have been seeing a decline in publication and sales. This is because of several reasons, one of which could possibly be the larger readership for newspapers. Newspapers have adapted to look and function like magazines, providing flashy entertainment news or sports updates like magazines in their supplements and special weekend editions, along with their usual 18 to 24-page copies. What is published in five magaz...