Re: Penton Media Health?

Scott,

I was told by another Penton employee that they had plans to discontinue the print version. I hope that this was just a trial balloon or an idea that was kicked around and rejected. As a consumer of their products, I'm just reaffirming that elimination of the print version is unacceptable to me.

-mark


At 8/29/2011 05:29 PM, you wrote:

Hi Vern,

> I would consider this a fortunate accident - not everyone uses the
> nontech list.

I agree that very few use the nontech list.

However, I'm not sure that the post makes a lot of sense out of context.
Evelyn's response basically says:

1) Penton Media is financially healthy.
2) They're not planning to eliminate printed magazines.

Out of context, it would seem strange for someone to suddenly appear and
say those things.

What would you think if you were in a bar, and a stranger walked over
and said "I'm NOT an alcoholic! And I do NOT need to stop drinking!"
Assuming this was out of context, your first instinct would probably be
"ummm... maybe you DO need to stop drinking..."

And have you noticed the responses in this thread? Eve said she has no
current plans to discontinue printed magazines, yet the responses have
been "print is more effective" and "going digital would not work for
me". Gee, she just told you she WASN'T going to eliminate the print
magazine.

That's my take on it, anyway.