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Magazines are kind of adware-shaped and that makes them competing with Instagram in 202x. IMO magazines as a genre moves to B2B areas, like what am I able to or
by eimrine 3y ago
Magazines are kind of adware-shaped and that makes them competing with Instagram in 202x. IMO magazines as a genre moves to B2B areas, like what am I able to order from some supplier this year. I have read a random 15 years old Cosmopolitan magazine which happened to appear on my desk today and I have realized that material is somewhat teenager-shaped with a gorgeous illustrations, great writing style but poor fact-checking (decline of global heating in my case) and actually there is no reason to consume this kind of content on a fallen trees medium while any teenager has a keyboard-less device with a beautiful screen which is too good setup to consume exactly this kind of information and too bad one for doing anything else.
What about books, they might were looking as a half-dead genre in 2009 but there is a lot of enshittification of the Internets happened since there. Seems like a good old ad-free privacy-respecting not-subscription-begging with not-obsoleteable-codec totally-readable-after-100-years paper textbook is a king. Of course you gonna turn off your spam notifications to make yourself able to consume something which is expressed on 100+ pages.