Quote, unquote: People demand, more, better, faster & magazines have not kept pace

“Recently, Condé Nast announced the closure of Gourmet Magazine. What happened there? It’s really very very simple: the traditional magazine has not kept pace with the needs of readers or advertisers. It isn’t that reading is going out of style – quite the opposite. It isn’t that people don’t care about quality – quite the opposite. The death of the traditional magazine has come about because people are demanding more information, of better quality, and faster.”

-- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in commenting on his blog the alliance of his for-profit Wikia and HP and its Magcloud digital platform to allow users to create glossy, printed magazines on their own from user-generated content. A release from HP said: "The collaboration between HP and Wikia will allow fans, aspiring publishers and writers of all types to create magazines based on the high-quality content and images created by Wikia’s more than 50,000 communities."