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I ran to the mailbox for these. Sad day. And yet, as others have said, “It felt inevitable.”

Popular Science was never the bastion of journalistic integrity, and yet this leaves me worried about print publishing in general. If a periodical can’t make it, what happens to print news?

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Print news is only a matter of time, right? The US daily newspaper circulation declined 30% between 2016 and 2020.

UK newspapers are dropping 10-20% in circulation in 2023 -alone-. Most of our magazines are already dead or extremely low quality.

Japan is doing well though. The Yomiuri Shimbun is published twice daily and has a morning circulation of 7 million. Magazines and periodicals are very much alive, including 500+ page manga magazines and the weekly Famitsu gaming magazine.

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