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Kye Do'lan
The Whitesands Consortium
#1 - 2013-03-13 13:45:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Kye Do'lan
Shame really, I would of continued to buy it if it was cheaper and you may have sold more also

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#2 - 2013-03-13 13:48:55 UTC
Outdated and kinda pointless - don't think a dead-tree magazine really fits with an online game.

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E-2C Hawkeye
HOW to PEG SAFETY
#3 - 2013-03-13 13:55:05 UTC
Sure it would have, had it been profitable.
Jensaro Koraka
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-03-13 13:56:04 UTC
Magazines still exist?

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#5 - 2013-03-13 14:06:49 UTC
We're not really in the generation of paying for summaries of publicly available information. Even real world newspapers with only hours old news that are ready in paper form. They barely get by charging $2 per issue

Most outlets are desperate to provide us with up to date information for free as quick and easy as possible to compete with others doing the same thing. Never mind trying to sell us outdated information for the cost of a plex.

I would have bought it if the magazine came in a digital version.
Compatible with the eve browser
released on a monthly or even weekly basis to keep the information fresh
and you subscribed to it using ISK from the game itself and each issue was sent out through the in game mail in the form of a link.

I wouldn't mind if it had a few ads either. Just throw in a few joke ads for quafe and in game ships and equipment as well.

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Kane Alvo
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-03-13 14:30:21 UTC
Print media is dying a slow, painful death. Print news especially.

I used to be a district manager for one of my state's largest newspapers. Subscription numbers are falling rapidly, ad revenue is way down, and even some of the biggest newspapers in the nation have gone exclusively online. When my job was cut, I went to a smaller newspaper as a photojournalist, and the crunch was even worse there. They were having a hard time even being able to afford to pay delivery drivers.

No one wants outdated news. Not when you can open up your web browser and literally within minutes of an event, find out something online complete with photos and in most cases, streaming video in HD...and it's usually free to boot.

As for EON, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Profit margins had to be pretty thin. The whole thing sounds like more of a community builder or "pet project" more than an actual revenue generator.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#7 - 2013-03-13 15:05:46 UTC
Kane Alvo wrote:

No one wants outdated news. Not when you can open up your web browser and literally within minutes of an event, find out something online complete with photos and in most cases, streaming video in HD...and it's usually free to boot.

I commentate on the Iditarod (Mitch Seavey, champion 2013!), and the reason people follow my comments is that I have the information up, with analysis, before the official race site has even released the news. And I've got more of it, too.

I draw from a dozen or so publicly-available sources, including FAA webcams (Several checkpoints are within eyeshot of airports) and local citizen-reporters, to present a composite view that is faster, and frequently with more depth, on the kinds of things people want to know (as opposed to what the print media and officials think people want, or what they can afford to tell). For this fast-breaking, specialty interest-oriented event, I kick print media's ass clear around the block, and do a pretty serious number on the official site, too.

And I'm a amature. Professional bloggers make me look totally weaksauce. Print doesn't really stand a chance on fast reporting. Where Print excels is in analysis, and even that goes at least as well online.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#8 - 2013-03-13 17:40:41 UTC
If only EON had taken my suggestion of 'Hot EvE avatar nude centerfold of the month' seriously... perhaps I shouldnt have suggested mine as being first...

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-03-13 17:48:50 UTC
No shame, the publishing industry as a whole is in a funk these days. EON did well to hold on as long as they did.

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Vito Tattaglia
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-03-13 18:01:57 UTC
RIP EON magazine, you were good while you lasted.
Turelus
Utassi Security
#11 - 2013-03-13 18:17:01 UTC
Should have just made it a digital magazine and then people may have paid for it. AFIAK most people never did because the shipping was so stupid.

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Emiko P'eng
#12 - 2013-03-13 19:06:55 UTC
I enjoyed it!

As someone who is not allowed electronic gizmos at work.

Having a book, magazine or EON at lunch is useful.

Plus as far as digital magazines are concerned.

I hate all the mucking about trying to stop reflections from windows or lights, are the batteries charged, zoom in zoom out, scrolling up down sideways just to try and read a single text block, while trying to skip through pages takes ages!

But the worst thing about digital magazines is if you stop paying the subscription you cannot re-read any of the magazines you already previously bought.

As far as I am concerned most digital magazines are basically a pile of steaming mammalian waste product!
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#13 - 2013-03-13 19:12:47 UTC
It would probably have been in greater demand if it had been known as the "First Look" at anything new about to be released in an EvE expansion. People might have been more tempted to subscribe if it had the edge of always being the first news release (as well as in depth analysis) of new EvE bling.

It doesn't matter now.

You did well, and will be missed by many.

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Saeryn Solette
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-03-13 19:15:21 UTC
im ashamed to say i usually bought or read the magazine second hand because i just couldn't afford it new. I also for a while clubbed together with a few corpies and we bought one between us and passed it round. As magazines go, the price was just too high for what it was. Digital doesn't interest me because i prefer the hard copy to read, same with local newspapers, you just can't get rid of the habit of pulling up a chair, grabbing a coffee and flicking through the news in the morning. I use computers enough without having to make them part of a daily ritual in order to read news
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#15 - 2013-03-13 20:06:33 UTC
Saeryn Solette wrote:
im ashamed to say i usually bought or read the magazine second hand because i just couldn't afford it new. I also for a while clubbed together with a few corpies and we bought one between us and passed it round. As magazines go, the price was just too high for what it was. Digital doesn't interest me because i prefer the hard copy to read, same with local newspapers, you just can't get rid of the habit of pulling up a chair, grabbing a coffee and flicking through the news in the morning. I use computers enough without having to make them part of a daily ritual in order to read news

If only the digital copies also had some sort of DRM to prevent it being shared, unlike the case of the physical which you were clearly able to.

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