An Update: savejpg.com has been created in an effort to save JPG Magazine.
JPG Magazine is closing its doors, effective Monday January 5 according to a blog post on their site by the magazine’s editor in chief Laura Bruno Miner:
We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.
The post goes on to mention a few things you might want to do before then if you will be affected by this decision:
- Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We’ll always have the memories!
- Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you’d like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.
- Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humbleflickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community.
- Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we’ll miss you guys! We’ll be checking the accountjpgletters@gmail.com in our free time going forward. We can’t promise to reply to every email (since we’ll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we’d love to hear from you.
- Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we’ll be updating you on what’s happening with your subscription early next week.
It’s sad to watch all the print publications die one by one this year, and it’s a real shame to lose a good publication such as this.
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