It looks like East West Magazine is shutting down. Read the editor’s blog here–I agree with all of her reasons for closing it down, even though it’s sad to see it’s go. East West will become yet another casualty of high printing costs, fewer advertisers, and the hard economy. I never read East West (I’m not an AA woman), but with their passing goes yet another area where Asian Americans can discuss culture and society. They now join Yolk and A Magazine. Next on the block is Giant Robot, which is desperately trying to raise $60,000 to stay in business:
We need magazines. I enjoy blogging, and I’ll continue to provide content as long as y’all continue to hang out here, but print provides a higher statement that pixels do not.
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Although all print industries (newspapers, magazines, books) have been hit hard by the onslaught of the Internet and the economy, I think you’d have better luck running a magazine if it was on a specific subject, trade or hobby that has enough people interested in it (ie video game mags, Lowrider magazine, etc). Asian American mags are kind of like mainstream mags: very bland, not very entertaining and not much useful information.
Now if You Offend Me, You Offend My Family were a magazine, that’d be interesting. Not enough for me to buy an issue. Just be a mooch and flip through it at Barnes and Noble.
I had no idea that Giant Robot was still around. I think the last time I had an issue was almost five years ago.