Flop of the week: Anthrazit no longer in printed form
The print edition of the Swiss magazine Anthrazit is being discontinued. After seven years, the publisher, Anthrazit AG, is discontinuing the print version of the digital lifestyle magazine and will focus on content and products for the mobile Internet.
The September issue of Anthrazit, published in a print run of 65,000 copies, is the last regular printed edition, as the company writes in a press release. Anthrazit will continue to explain the digital lifestyle, but digitally: firstly on Anthrazit.org, and secondly with iPhone and iPad applications that can be downloaded free of charge from the App Store. It is not yet clear whether Anthrazit will continue to present the awards "The 200 best websites in Switzerland" and "The 100 most useful e-shops in Switzerland" in printed form. The company is currently negotiating with various publishers. With the move from publisher to software house, publishing director Gabriela Benz, who built up and expanded the publishing house with Christian Schwengeler, is leaving Anthrazit AG. Schwengeler intends to offer his expertise to publishers and companies in the form of applications and data.
