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Post by doinkmark on Jan 18, 2013 4:17:59 GMT -5
Anyone know when the last issue of Wrestling Superstars was published? That was always my favorite Apter Mag after PWI anyway. Mostly for the Dream Match section.
This is sad news, but not surprising. Combining the magazines into one and charging more for it was an attempt at cutting costs and increasing profit. Extinction as the next step makes sense. The magazine place in my mall used to stock every single wrestling magazine back in the 90s. I'd go in there once a month and have like 8 publications to choose from. Nowadays they only carry WWE magazine and The Wrestler/Inside Wrestling combo one. I'll have to go in there and pick up the last issue while I still can.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 18, 2013 7:32:57 GMT -5
It's weird when you think about it, but in 10 years, most periodical publications will be extinct. I don't think they will ever be completely extinct. There will always be a demand for physical copies of publications, be it magazines or books. Sure, there's the internet and there's devices like the Kindle, but books aren't ever going to completely go away. Neither will magazines. Maybe not completely, but when I go to a bookstore I can't help but think how much smaller that section will be eventually. That, and the little kids out there now have been born into a world where they will ALWAYS be aware of Iphones and tablets, etc. they won't care as much about physical product like we do, because they didn't grow up with it very prominently in their life.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 18, 2013 8:54:17 GMT -5
For magazines to survive, they need to provide something that the net cant compete with. For that to happen, maybe PWI should just go hog wild and print really wild stories like they did pre-internet like bugging the horsemen's locker room or that hussein arab (iron sheik)'s boot makes him invincible.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 18, 2013 13:09:50 GMT -5
the end of The Wrestler doesn't really matter. he was told he could no longer wrestle or he might die. but his whole life is wrestling. so if he didn't actually die at the end of the match with The Ayatollah then he was figuratively "dead" because his whole life was now over following it. Wait, would that have been his last match ever, even if he were still alive after it? As for the magazines, I never really bought the TW and IW ones, I was a PWI man if anything. I buy the PWI 500 and Female 50 almost every year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 8:05:50 GMT -5
Nostalgia is the only reason I even buy the PWI Year-End issue anymore. I picked one up yesterday. It kicks off my own, personal "Road To WrestleMania", where I try to avoid spoilers and the like up until the event.
It's like I'm 13 all over again.
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