Computer Shopper (US magazine)

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Computer Shopper
Computershoppermagazinecover.jpg
Editor John A. Burek
Categories Computer magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1979
Final issueApril 2009
Company SX2 Media Labs
CountryUnited States
Based in Titusville, Florida
LanguageEnglish
Website computershopper.com
ISSN 0886-0556

Computer Shopper is a monthly consumer computer magazine that was published by SX2 Media Labs. The magazine ceased print publication in April 2009. [1] [2] The website was closed and redirected to the PCMag website in late May 2018. [3] [4]

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History

Computer Shopper magazine was established in 1979 in Titusville, Florida. [5] It began as a tabloid-size publication on yellow newsprint that primarily contained classified advertising and ads for kit computers, parts, and software. The magazine was created by Glenn Patch, publisher of the photo-equipment magazine Shutterbug Ads, in the hopes of applying its formula to a PC-technology magazine. [6] The magazine expanded into prebuilt home computers and white box IBM PC compatibles through the 1980s. [7]

The magazine grew to several hundred pages, mostly of advertisements. [7] It was during this time that the magazine was sold to Ziff Davis Publishing, first as a limited partnership, [8] then solely owned. It was sold in 2000, along with Ziff-Davis' ZDNet Web site, to CNET. CNET sold Computer Shopper to new owners, SX2 Media Labs, in 2006. [9] In April 2009, SX2 Media Labs discontinued the print version of the magazine. [10] The business continued on as a Web entity, ComputerShopper.com, which was reacquired by Ziff-Davis in 2012. [9]

List of editors-in-chief

John A. Burek (2008–2017) [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Computer Shopper Is Going All Digital; April Is Last Print Issue".
  2. ↑ "Subscriber Bulletin".
  3. ↑ "Desktop Computers | Laptop Computers | Computer Deals - Computer Shopper". May 21, 2018. Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  4. ↑ "403 Forbidden". Archived from the original on May 23, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  5. ↑ Carey, Chris (November 21, 1987). "Brevard Concerns Make Inc.'s List 3 Are Among the Fastest-Growing Companies in the Nation". Orlando Sentinel . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ Carey, Chris (February 22, 1988). "Taking Time to Turn Loose Publisher Glenn Patch Rides Wave of Future to Top of His Wish List". Orlando Sentinel . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Madrigal, Alexis S. (July 11, 2013). "An Ode to Computer Shopper". The Atlantic . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ Yasuda, Gene (June 3, 1995). "Titusville Publisher Moving Magazines, Jobs to Missouri". Orlando Sentinel . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  9. 1 2 "Ziff Davis acquires Computer Shopper". May 14, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ Callahan, Sean (February 27, 2009). "'Computer Shopper' moves to online only". Ad Age . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  11. ↑ "John Burek Bio and Latest News, Articles and Reviews". PCMAG. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
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