SOF Goes Digital; Last Print Edition April 2016
By Dean Weingarten
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The April, 2016, edition will be the final print edition of Soldier of Fortune magazine. The magazine was started in 1975 by Robert K. Brown, and has been a resounding success. The end of the print edition does not mean the end of SOF. It means that SOF has made the successful transition from dead tree status to that of totally recycled electrons. Not many publications have been able to make such a successful transition. According to the Wall Street Journal, the SOF website had 430,000 unique visitors in January, and has almost a million followers on facebook. From wsj.com:
Its website has limited traffic, attracting 430,000 unique visitors in January, according to comScore Inc. But its Facebook page is frequently updated and has nearly a million followers.
I am not surprised that SOF has been able to make a successful transition to a purely digital format. SOF has always been an new media outlet. It was one of the leading and early manifestations of new media, that was not invested in the ethos of the “progressive” …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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