> My recollection is that the amateur tech magazines were
> struggling long before the popularity of the Internet in the
> late '90s.  The WWW was merely the final nail in the coffin.

I wonder what has really caused that.

General economic ups and downs =3D> wobbly advertising revenue ?

Availability of things like the PICAXE, Lego Mindstorm, Stamp,
Arduino et al which let you have an interest in electronics without
knowing, or needing to know, much about it ?

During the heyday of electronic magazines if you wanted some
gizmo you had to make it pretty much from the ground up, you
couldn't buy it.

Even today, presented with an article on how to, for example, make
an exceptionally good audio amplifier, would I bother when there is
an absolute plethora of (good but not exceptional) audio systems
available off-the-shelf ?

And that affects component sellers like Radio Shack

Joe
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