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=== Magazines ===
* ''The [[The New York Times]]'' and ''The [[Washington Post]]'' were Doorstoppers until quitethe mid recently2000s (the last two serious newspapers in the U.S., and 25¢ in the case of the Post) when a combination of the ad-killing recession, Franchise Decay (the ''Post'' laid off half its reporters the minute it no longer had a serious newspaper competiorcompetitor) and the foolish decision to split up its content into multiple formats (half the articles are now available for free in subway editions, and the front page actually ''tells you'' to go online to read an article accompanying a photo for a paper you just bought!) the result, needless to say has been a precipitous decline in volume and content from over 100 pages an issue to something like 25.
* At the height of its popularity around 1994-1995, ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'' would crank out issues that totalled about 400+ pages in length (although half the pages were just ads.) This caused ''EGM2'', a spinoff magazine which focused more on tips and tricks launched in July 1994. For comparison's sake, the magazine could barely fill 100 pages by the time it "died" in early 2009.
** The British computer magazine ''Personal Computer World''<ref>which is abbreviated to ''PCW'', not ''PC World'', which is either a different US magazine, or a British PC retailer</ref> also often resembled a small (ad-filled) phone book during its heydays. Although it hadn't shrunk as much as EGM, it was still a shadow of its former self when it was cancelled.
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