One of the most interesting american magazines dedicated to electronic music, Grooves, switches to online only distribution starting with year 2006. They are not going to publish paper issues any longer. I wonder what made them do so, probably it's just too much hassle for their type of business. But anyway, it's unlikely they're going down and from a point of consumer, I like the idea of file subscription distribution.

Have been an active subscriber for years and one of the most important matters for me is what to do with the magazine after I have read it. Currently they're in a pantry, backcatalogues of The Wire, Magnet, XLR8R and some other ones and I fear a moment when I'll have to move somewhere, paper is so heavy. And I wouldn't like to throw them away, it's a pleasure to leaf through old magazines with interviews, reviews and so on.

Some day in the past I had a crazy idea to scan all the backcatalogue but gave up very soon for its so time consuming. So the fact that Grooves is going digital is a salvation. We'll see what becomes of it all.