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Michael Mandiberg, Old News, 2009 undermining what has been their main role for generations. This shift was eloquently expressed in Old News, 92 an art installation by Michael Mandiberg. Every morning, the artist arrived at the gallery space with a stack of (fresh) copies of the New York Times, with the words “Old News” cut out by laser in huge letters. The pile of now-unreadable newspapers steadily grew, symbolically demonstrating the worthlessness of stacks of unsold or unread copies. 3.1.1 The mass slaughter of periodical print. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales asserts that “There still is value in the paper form-factor and there still is value in carefully selected ‘best of’ content, delivered on a per-issue or subscription basis.” 93 And what of all the other forms of periodical print? As the saying goes, “if Athens cries, Sparta does not laugh”. In the course of 2009, for example, a number of popular glossy magazines such as PC Magazine, Playgirl, Arena, Vibe, Blender, Urb and Play published their final issues (though Playgirl and Vibe have since been resurrected as quarterly or bi-monthly publications). One rather peculiar phenomenon, apparently restricted to fashion magazines, is the ‘digital shoplifting’ of copyrighted images. This ‘social networking’ practice, at one point quite popular in Japan, 94 involves mostly young women taking photos (using their mobile phones in bookshops) of the latest fashion trends in glossy magazines, and sharing the images with their friends through the MMS mobile phone messaging service. The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA) condemned the practice as ‘information theft’, but bookshop owners replied that there was no way their staff could tell the difference between customers taking pictures, and those simply chatting on their phones. 58
But commercial magazines have already started pursuing different strategies – such as selling digital PDF versions (at about half the price of the paper editions), distributed through new platforms and services, of which Zinio is one of the most successful. At first, publishers agreed to give away the PDF files for free, in exchange for personal data obtained through registration. Later, the services began selling the magazines, in both downloadable PDF format and web-based view. An important early characteristic of these services was that they allowed their customers to share the web-based digital editions with as many friends as they wished – presumably as a strategy to increase readership. Needless to say, many people simply shared the cheap PDF files through their own websites, or made them available on peer-topeer networks. Eventually, the commercial digital magazine services all started restricting access through strictly unshareable web-based or mobile app-based interfaces. Independent magazines are not doing so well either. A prophetic 1995 issue of Factsheet Five reminds us of how independent publishers in all likelihood became concerned about the Web and its consequences for publishing, long before the mainstream industry did. Factsheet Five dedicated this issue to the Web and its impact on the zine world; the cover story was titled Paper or Plastic?, and the front-page illustration depicted a large muscular man with a monitor-shaped face, kicking sand on a skinny man with a magazine-shaped face. The skinny guy is complaining: “Hey! Quit kicking silicon in our faces, you big cyberbully!” while his girlfriend is thinking: “Oh, when will Charlie get online?” The cartoon perfectly illustrates a sense of impending doom within the traditional zine world, threatened in its very existence by a younger and stronger ‘silicon’ bully. 59 Left The historical Paper or Plastic? cover of Factsheet Five, issue #56, 1995 Right The Revenge of <strong>Print</strong> issue (#55) of Punk Planet, May & June 2003
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