The Music Network to stop printing: ‘Print is dead’
Four years after buying industry trade title The Music Network, Peer Group Media has announced the closure of the weekly print edition.
The company made the announcement today, telling readers that “Print is dead”. It said:
“Print is dead. Gone the way of video-tape, the CD and Jesus Christ before it, print media had a remarkable and resilient run before inevitably succumbing to the ravages of time, and the advancement of mankind. The Internet didn’t help either.
“All farewells should be sudden, as Lord Byron once said (or maybe it was that lad from The Verve), which is why after nearly nineteen years and 925 issues we will be pulling the pin on the print edition of The Music Network. So, after the issue that landed on your desk this morning, there will be two more, and then we will exist in online form only.”
The Music Network’s website will remain as a subscription-based service currently set at a discounted $400 per year.
Peer Group Media was founded by CEO Adam Zammit. It also runs The Big Day Out and various music based brand marketing campaigns.
Despite the “print is dead” message, Peer Group still prints street press title The Brag.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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If the future of print can be likened to Jesus Christ it’s future may not be as grim as Peer Group bluntly proclaims. About two billion Christians are about to celebrate Christ’s resurrection so perhaps it’s Peer Group that is on the way out?
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Like Jesus Christ? So may never have existed to begin with?
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“Oh, Jesus Christ!” (roll eyes)
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shouldn’t print now subsequently rise after three days, then make some broad sweeping statements that will ultimately be take well out of context thousands of years later?
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Reading is overrated. Dad relies on people not being very well read.
Otherwise they would, you know, realise that he is full of shit.
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When Peter? I missed the memo…
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Print is dead, but we’re still printing… Yep!
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Gone the way of JC? just as well Moses has descended Mount Sinai with the tablets.
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Welcome back @Andrew Bolt & Gina Rineharts Lovechild. Missed you!
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Print is dead, news papers every where and thousands of flyers through my door day after day.
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So if Peer Group can’t make it work, they’re assuming that no-one else will have the ability to? Someone tell Tyler Brule, Louise Bannister, Alan Webber and Bill Taylor quick smart – don’t think they got the memo.
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