An End And A New Beginning

This isn't an easy Publisher's Memo for me to write. For 37 years, Business Communications Review has chronicled the advance of communications technologies and services. From analog to digital, from digital to IP, from voice to data and video, from 56/64-kbps transmission channels to broadband, from

But every advance in one technology means the decline of another. That's true in telecom and it's also true in the publishing business. Not surprisingly, those two are linked: Print has been under pressure for several years, because of historic weaknesses in the business model, weaknesses that the Web has the potential to overcome.

And so, this is the last issue of Business Communications Review, a magazine that many of you have been incredibly loyal to for many years, and a magazine that I've been proud to be associated with for more than two decades. Eric Krapf and I, along with most of the magazine columnists and contributors you've come to know and appreciate, will be continuing our conversation with you, but not in print or via USPS delivery; instead, we'll be using the Web and e-newsletters.