The magazine "Software Development" was closed after the rise of cuj

Today, I accidentally saw an article on the ddj website. The world's top Software Engineering and Management Magazine software development was closed and merged into dr. Dobb's journal. Dr. Dobb's journal will become a technical magazine covering software engineering management, software architecture, and software design. news article: http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/sdmag.jhtml

Not long ago, the only professional C/C ++ language magazine in the worldCuj cannot get rid of the fate of its publication suspension.Although the publication of two technology publications cannot be suspended, it is an indisputable fact that the market of traditional technology publications is tightening rapidly with the rise of the Internet.

What makes the world's top technical publications unable to get rid of their fate? Is there any possibility of development in professional technology magazines?

As plauger, editor-in-chief of cuj, said, the network is a traditional paper media publication, at least the culprit of technical publications. the network is massive, convenient, real-time, interactive and other features, video, sound and other content organization forms, naturally become the first choice for people to obtain technical knowledge. With the popularization of the Internet, especially the time for technicians to read magazines, the speed of reading magazines is also decreasing. The loss of a large number of readers has led print magazines to become a dying market.

But will these make the traditional technology magazine completely die? The answer may be no. At least for the moment, the quality of content in many technical journals still has a great advantage, at least not worse than the network. At the same time, magazines are a different reading experience from those on the Internet. This should make the magazine have a living space that cannot be replaced by the Internet in a short period of time. So where is the problem? What makes technology magazines fall so fast? Driven by commercial interests! The inherent high operating costs, limitations of circulation, and weak advertising effect compared with the network make the profits of technology magazines increasingly weak. How many people will stick to such a weak profit and continue playing traditional technology magazines? Therefore, the pursuit of commercial interests may be the culprit for accelerating the death of technology magazines.

Can technology magazines still develop? Can content organizations in the form of magazines continue? (Many traditional technology magazines are devoted to the Internet. We will not talk about this part .) Electronic Magazine is regarded as a feasible development direction. Electronic magazines have become the first product of the evolution of traditional technology magazines. In addition to downloading to a PC to read the electronic version, mobile devices have become the main battlefield of electronic magazines. With the improvement of smart mobile devices, this reading method has been accepted by more and more people, resulting in e-Magazine business opportunities, will it truly become a way out for the transformation of traditional technology magazines? What new forms will be generated? It may take time.

[Note: as I have no experience in print media, this article is subjective. The text is plain and you are welcome to criticize and correct it.]

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Founded in 1976, it is a well-established and most influential comprehensive technology magazine in the software development field in the United States. It is an uncontroversial industry leader. Unlike many magazines and websites, it focuses on an independent technology platform, language, and even a single development tool. dr. with 30 years of experience, Dobb's technology fully covers all language platforms and tools.

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