R.I.P. Vibe magazine

[Mizango]

Actually I'd be pretty pissed is I lost my subscriptions to Science Illustrated, Discover Magazine and the Astrophysical journal. The last of which is very expensive.

[Mizango]

Fuck that noise.

[Dimmauk]

How has this thread been allowed to denigrate the great paragon of intellectual standards on BG forums that is General? Seriously.

I won't miss magazines in the least even if every last one goes out of print. Soon the only ones left will be gossip rags anyway.

Quincy Jones Will Not Let Vibe Die
By The Cajun Boy

Today we learned that Vibe Magazine was folding. Now Vibe founder Quincy Jones is distraught over the news and determined to swoop in and save the magazine. How? "I'm'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over."

Jones created Vibe back in 1993 to showcase rap and R&B music in a voice that was younger and edgier than other publications existing at the time, hoping to appeal to young, urban music fans. In 2006 the magazine was purchased by the Wicks Media Group.

Jones spoke to Ebony Senior Editor Adrienne Samuels Gibbs this afternoon:

"I'm trying to buy my magazine back now," Jones told EbonyJet.com just moments ago during a telephone call to Jones' London abode. "They just messed my magazine all up, but I'm gonna get it back. You better believe it, I'm'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over."

Jones says that all publications must figure out how to live online. That's where he's going to take Vibe once he recovers from the death of his friend and protégé Michael Jackson.

"We gotta get into the 21st century you know," Jones said. " "Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that. The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Miami Herald. They're over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century."

While Jones sees an online-only presence as the future of VIBE, the magazine's Web site was already robust and, according to its CEO, profitable. Industry analysts say that without the burden of paying for the printed page, there might be a digital opportunity for VIBE if the brand's name and archives could be bought without having to assume the company's debt.

Under few circumstances would it be wise to ever bet against Quincy Jones and he certainly still seems to have an excellent grasp on things at age 76. Quincy Jones gets it, just as he always has.

[guartz]

no these people have a right to make money for their efforts, we should bail them out.

[Absolutely Virtue]

I appreciate the notion that print magazines are dead, as is the newspaper. But I still can't get used to the idea of taking my BlackBerry into the bathroom to read. Am I just old?

[Dimmauk]

I appreciate the notion that print magazines are dead, as is the newspaper. But I still can't get used to the idea of taking my BlackBerry into the bathroom to read. Am I just old?

Yeah. It is way easier to just take your phone into the toilet. Plus you get updated info.

[Absolutely Virtue]

I definitely do it at work, cause I don't want to be the guy who takes the paper with him into john. But when I'm at home, and sittin' like a boss, I like to go old-fashioned.

[Mizango]

I appreciate the notion that print magazines are dead, as is the newspaper. But I still can't get used to the idea of taking my BlackBerry into the bathroom to read. Am I just old?

I do that constantly, as a matter of fact I MUST locate my iphone before going to the throne.

[ZarakiKujata]

http://pics.livejournal.com/ryogavee/pic/00028th1

yay someone got what my posts were referencing. but srsly I don't drop a squat w/out my iphone, even if I'm not surfing/reading/playing on it while I'm doing my business, just so useful. This past semester I had to take a shit right before my assigned time to register for housing for the following year, my iPhone let me get the housing I wanted w/out having to suffer holding it in lol.

In regards to magazines though, only one I subscribe to is The Economist, and apparently they have one of the best business models/highest revenue streams of any magazine so don't have to worry about them folding.

[Skjie]

Blackberry > magazine.