admin posted on February 20, 2010 16:55

Penton going Chapter 11.

I read today that Penton Media, the outfit that runs SQL Server Magazine, Windows & .Net Magazine, and DevConnections and SQLServerconnections, will bail from it's debt by restructuring.  Read about this at the link below.  You know - I saw this coming several years ago in my post back in December 2008 SQL Server Magazine seems to be shrinking... when I mentioned that the magazine had gone from 80-90 pages down to a measly 45-50 pages. I really like the magazine and hope that they get it together, because next stop is Chapter 7 and goodbye forever.

Read about it at http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20100209/FREE/100209819.

 

Lee

 

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February 22. 2010 11:30
I've subscribed off and on for the past five years or so, and it always struck me that Penton seems stuck in a paper-magazine rut. Technical content like what they sell is rushing so quicky to the web, while their web site, with minor changes, remains sort of lousy and static. Compare, for example, http://www.sqlmag.com/ with http://sqlserverpedia.com/. I know it's tough to discover how to remain profitable as a magazine, when faced with the juggernaut of free content from Wikis and Blogs - but it seems like they need to move faster, before their online brand is totally dead.

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