Alan Meckler offers up his thoughts on PC Magazine The Barometer:
The Internet is killing PC Magazine and its competitor PC World … just as it has killed several other books over the previous few years. The information in these magazines is dated by the time it is published because of the speed of Internet publishing. Price guides and comparisons are nice to see in print, but this information is more readily updated and found on hundreds of Web sites that are changed daily.
I have long been predicting the further decline of trade and tech print magazines. This latest news from Ziff Davis only reconfirms what we have all been watching — a very slow but steady decline and death of computer magazines.
A while back I snagged a three-year subscription to PC Magazine’s electronic edition for something like 12 cents an issue. It arrives via the Zinio Reader, and for the last few months I haven’t even bothered opening it. I didn’t renew my PC World subscription either. PC Magazine’s Web site is a pitiful joke, as I and others have blogged before.
So, how long before PC Mag is gone completely? Anyone want to start a pool?
Ed Bott 
I would say within the next 8 months..
I started out learning more about PCs with Magazine’s like PC Magazine, back in 1998, when I had a sllloowww AOL 56K connection and surfing the net was pretty painful. Now that I have broadband (for the last 3 years) I find myself mostly on my PC doing things, instead of buying Magazine’s, reading books, or even watching TV. Only Magazine I get now is Maximum PC and that’s just because I like the writting style.
I give it 15 months on the far side. Google will continue its popularity for one reason — its minimalist simplicity. The Smithsonian should make an archive of some of PCMag’s web pages just so that 100 years from now, students will laugh. Now that RSS ads are on the way, I’m sure PCMag will smother their feeds likewise.