JPG Magazine Will Survive After All

A week ago I wrote about how JPG Magazine was on the verge of folding–I think due in part to their mandatory print subscription which comes with membership.

At 4:30 this morning, I received an email from their publisher, 8020 Media, stating that they are in fact going to survive thanks to a huge amount of community outpouring.  Of course news coverage like those here and here don’t hurt either.  They are settling on a buyer next week.  Exciting news!

This is a great time to remind any photographers out there to take a look and consider contributing to JPG Magazine.  There are some fantastic artists showing their work, and you should join them.

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Is JPG Magazine Folding?

[photo by minno]

JPG Magazine may be shutting down immediately.  Founded on an extraordinarily active community, the magazine uses crowdsourcing to gather content for its semi-monthly published paper issues.  Sure, traditional publishing may be slowly grinding to a halt, but the hybrid publishing model is so innovative!

Perhaps they should created muli-tiered memberhips and leave the revenue-sucking physical magazine strictly optional.

You can download back issues in PDF form before the site goes down on Monday 1/5.

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