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RIP Craft Magazine
February 13, 2009
Although he can at times be mean, the Grim Reaper at Magazine Death Pool keeps me up-to-date on folding
magazines. I'm sad to see Craft go—highlighted along with its nerdier, more masculine sister Make (which seems to trucking along okay for now) in our July 2008 "Magazine Rack" on green living as a DIY mag that "has successfully tapped the urge to be creative with things at home"—but an annoucement on the magazine's homepage assures:
"All along, we have noticed that Craftzine.com has been growing steadily. At the same time, we've come to realize that there were more and more challenges in publishing CRAFT as a print magazine, especially with the costs of print and distribution rising, and diminishing interest among advertisers in print. So we've decided that Volume 10, our Celebrate Like Crazy issue, will be our last print issue and that the future of CRAFT is online. (CRAFT subscribers will be notified by email today of the changes and how to obtain a refund for their subscription. If we don't have your email, we will be sending you a letter by post.)
"If you are a CRAFT subscriber, you will have access to the entire digital archive of CRAFT (Volumes 1-10) through April 1, 2009, even if you cancel your subscription.
"If you are a CRAFT subscriber who transfers to MAKE, you will have access to the entire digital archive of CRAFT (Volumes 1-10) through April 1, 2009 or for as long as you are a MAKE subscriber, whichever is longer."
Posted by Anna Katterjohn on February 13, 2009 | Comments (0)
