[tdotter]

So,in the Score February 2016 issue they announced that Score will only be published 7 times a year and Voluptuous 6 times a year.
I know most people on here don't buy magazines anymore but I'm not one of them.I prefer a magazine in my hand rather than on online version of it.
Are you going to throw away your Led Zeppelin IV lp after you downloaded an online version of it?
Fuck no!

[bignatslover]

Perhaps Elliot himself may chime in on this one.

I will try to be an amateur futurist and make the predictions for you though:

2016-2017: Score continues print publication at its stated six/seven times per year.

2018-2019: Score abandons physical printing but makes a "Magazine .PDF" version available online for download.

2020-2021: Score continues downloadable .PDF but also adds a "Holo View" which is a hologram magazine in front of your eyes using new virtual reality compatibility.

2022: Score is bought by Chinese company vowing to keep VR application and to also start shipping "sex bots" of each featured model to high-paying premium subscribers.

2023: 3D printing breakthroughs make "sex bots" as inexpensive to manufacture as the AOL CD's were in the 1990s - customers enter a golden age of hands-on boob groping.

2024: Chinese Score bought out by Chinese Mega-Tech company, which offers a new line of products including sampling your DNA and letting you have robotic families with each huge-boob model.

2025: Singularity hits us all.  All previous technology is irrelevant.  We are all swept up into a digital world with boobs larger than the known universe,  It is a celestial utopia of endless pleasure.
 

[solvegas]

Well, the economics favor online over magazine. It cost a lot more money to cut a tree, transport log to mill, process the wood, transport and distribute finished product to print plant, transport and distribute to retailers, pay property, sales, federal, state, local and other taxes, pay rent of land/property, pay employees besides the owner, pay utilities for the retail outlet, pay for shoplifting and of course, pay for unexpected expenses. If I missed anything, I'm sure someone can fill in the blanks. Oh, usually retail has a 5% margin of profit to keep things going. OR, you can skip many of these steps by simply disturbing and annoying some electrons and dealing much more directly with the consumer and undercut the brick and mortar merchandiser. Like the Chinese curse says " May you live in interesting times " if you own a store. This may be tragic to many since I like to see and feel first hand what I'm purchasing.

[TheZookie007]

I like options. I don't like not having them. When I buy a SCORE/Voluptuous hard-copy issue I usually buy two: one for preservation, and one for, er, active use. I often also have a PDF version of it. And I always enjoy the large-format .JPGs of their images.

I'd be sorry to see SCORE/Voluptuous go online-only. Nothing beats the paper.

[Robin_K2]

Thinking in the publishing industry right now is that there will always be some sort of print edition -- it will just come rarely. This is because some advertisers just really want display advertising -- that's the kind in newspapers that fills a page or big box. Almost all magazine advertising is display.

So your newspaper may put out only one print edition every week or even month. If Score goes online, I would anticipate that they would still put out a "special" edition from time to time.

But God only knows. The young people are driving all this, and there's a fresh generation all the time. It occurred to me the other day that college freshmen probably do not recall a time before smartphones were available.

[pedonbio]

But God only knows. The young people are driving all this, and there's a fresh generation all the time. It occurred to me the other day that college freshmen probably do not recall a time before smartphones were available.

Well, Robin, I reflect that this year's college freshman is younger than the BEA.