Personal Computer World magazine closes after 31 years

It is with great sadness that we learnt this week, our friends at Personal Computer World (PCW) are no longer in employment with Incisive Media (PCW’s publisher). After 31 years, the magazine has been forced to close citing the poor state of the advertising market as the reason behind the decision to declare the title as “no longer economically viable”.

PCW launched in 1978, and whilst I was a tad to young to remember, the magazine is said to have defined UK home computing during the ’80s. PCW’s most recent ABC for 2008 was 54,009, however the August issue that is due to hit newstands this week, will be its last.

The closure is expected to cause around a dozen redundancies. From a Ranieri perspective, it is sad to see journalists that we have worked with for so many years out of a job, so lets hope they all find another post very soon.

Managing director Graham Harman explained, “Sadly, no amount of hard work or innovation was going to turn around the structural decline in advertising and newsstand sales. The depth of this recession and the ease of access to information online has only served to accelerate the long-term downward trend within this particular sector.”

Adam

Tags: consumer tech pr, consumer technology, gadgets, pcw, technology

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