I saw this coming

Magazines moving to digital distribution. Newspapers and magazines have been in a pretty severe decline recently, and this is only bowing to the inevitable. The question is whether they can deliver content on par with free sites like, shall we say, Gizmodo. Of course, it's entirely possible that they'll go with the free distribution/advertising model.

I just question whether companies familiar with dead-tree distribution will have the same efficacy with online distribution. For one thing, the barriers to competition are far, far lower online. If they can't offer something unique, they're going to run into a lot of problems.