Plans to Dissect European Print Mags, Which Include Dirt

An announcement today went out that Factory Media, who runs a large portion of the adventure sport media publishing throughout Europe, including Dirt and Ride BMX UK, plans to stop printing 19 of its titles. Print definitely appears to be dying, especially with rather large moves such as this.

Would you miss print versions of Dirt, or do most readers tend to focus in the online, interactive media now? I think it would be a real shame to no longer have access to print items such as Dirt—it was the only print mag worth reading 15 or so years ago and still is such a good piece to take on flights etc. There's something about that tactile sense granted from paper mags once in a while.

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