A Port in the Storm: The Role of Magazines Now, November 2025

The death of publishing has been a protracted subject. Every year a fresh set of doomsayers appears in online columns to announce that soon we will abandon anything printed on a weekly or monthly basis, or anything that does not live entirely on the internet. It has long been a bugbear of mine. As I have admitted before, I am a luddite and proud of it. You have to be made of rather dense material these days not to feel sceptical about the motives of the tech world. One of those motives is the scraping of any half-decent piece of writing and the regurgitation of it for the casual reader, all while neatly avoiding credit to the publication that researched and paid for it (à la Google). Combine this with the pitiful sums now needed to push products at consumers through the data-harvesting perfected by Meta over the last twenty years, making it so easy to bypass traditional advertising,  it becomes easy to believe that magazines are kaput. I think quite the opposite.

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