Ok so, i'm sure some of you aren't familiar with the published twice every year magazine/ blog called Purple Diary.. Basically it's like sex and then an orgy lol. But it's a magazine that talks about fashion, art, and well.. sex.
But more importantly, Style.com did a really extensive interview with him basically talking about his magazine, and the whole internet vs magazines and how its gonna go out of style and what not... Honestly, me being a blogger and on the online side, was impressed with some of his responses to his question, you can read the article here but i want to highlight one of his questions.
So you don’t think the Internet will replace magazines?
The commercial magazines may be replaced, because the Internet is a better place for commerce and immediate information. The Internet is a chance for magazines because it forces the magazines to be more creative and to really explore what they are, what is the essence of a magazine and what a magazine is meant for. And it’s not meant for commerce…Magazines are also made for instruction, for energy, for voyeurism, for sexiness, for pleasure, for a lot of things. Not only a place to sell products. This is why you don’t have any good magazines now in Japan. It’s a disaster because they just consider magazines like an extension of advertising…This kind of magazine, strictly commercial, will certainly disappear because you have more information, more contact, more possibility of buying on the Internet. But a true creative fashion magazine can’t be replaced by a true creative fashion site because it doesn’t exist and it won’t exist. You don’t want to look at a fashion shoot on your screen, do you?
that is a really persuasive anwser dontcha think? Honestly, the way i see it, Blogs will always be that BLOGS.. We don't make our blog posts to try to run magazines out of business. If that was the case, I wouldn't be subscribed to 5+ magazines.. But that's just my opinion...
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