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Re: Linux Journal Ceases Publication

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Post by mediocrejoker »

muxator wrote: post #9

The publishing situation is so bleak, and the saddest part is that the higher the quality, the deeper the problems. Does anyone know how lwn [0] is doing? It's one of the latest very high profile publications remaining as of now. [0] https://lwn.net/

I just bought a LWN subscription for the first time ever in an attempt to prevent the same thing from happening to them.

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Post by DougN7 »

bobcallme wrote: post #5

This is great news! I stopped reading Linux Journal once they went all digital.

I'm not sure I'd call it great news. But I too have stopped reading a few magazines that went all digital. There is just too much other digital competition when I've got a browser open. But when I'm sitting at breakfast and what to read something physical, there was very little competition (I don't like getting iPads sticky, so don't use them when eating!).

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Post by gerdesj »

muxator wrote: post #9

The publishing situation is so bleak, and the saddest part is that the higher the quality, the deeper the problems. Does anyone know how lwn [0] is doing? It's one of the latest very high profile publications remaining as of now. [0] https://lwn.net/

As a pretty long term subscriber, I get the impression that things are OK at the moment. JC and Co are probably not millionaires but it seems pretty comfortable at the present. They have had their moments in the past.

A recent series of articles were about accounting software (ie getting away from proprietary software) which is the sort of navel gazing that wouldn't happen if things were bad.

I'm not affiliated in any way but if you want to read the thoughts of some seriously clever people, then LWN is the place to go. Subscriptions start at $7 per month but if you can't manage that then you can read slightly older content for free.

Remember this colour code: #ffcc99 - you'll need that to make it look right 8)

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Post by ausjke »

long time subscribers here(10+ years), also subscriber to lwn.net for many years, both are great. this is a sad story. I loved LJ's kernel korner and its four-embedded-linux series a few years back. Linux is getting more and more widely used, while google gives you many info and it is still meaningful for a magazine such as LJ to exist.

i remember at one time lwn.net was asking for life support, since then it seems to be doing well, maybe LJ can do the same? I tend to think LJ needs rethink about its content, that could be voted by its potential subscribers as well.

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Post by exikyut »

PSA: I found an archive link amongst the comments (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub...)

It's being sold for $11.99.

Here's the purchase link: http://lj.mybigcommerce.com/linux-journal-archive-1994-2017/

Apparently it's HTML-format. No mention is made of whether it includes images or how big the download is. My suspicion is that it's pure-text, which is really sad.

If anyone wants to look into scraping the site, I wouldn't mind jumping on board. (Suffice to say that... not everything submitted into the Web Archive is let back out.)

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