American global computer magazine
PC World
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Editor
| Jon Phillips
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Categories
| Computer magazine
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Frequency
| Monthly
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Total circulation
(December 2012)
| 355,117 (United States)
[1]
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First issue
| March 1983
; 41 years ago
(
1983-03
)
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Final issue
| August 2013
(
2013-08
)
(print)
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Company
| IDG
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Country
| United States
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Based in
| San Francisco, California, US
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Language
| English
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Website
| www
.pcworld
.com
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ISSN
| 0737-8939
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OCLC
| 1117065657
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PC World
(stylized as
PCWorld
) is a global
computer magazine
published monthly by
IDG
.
[2]
Since 2013, it has been an online-only publication.
It offers advice on various aspects of
PCs
and related items, the Internet, and other personal technology products and services. In each publication,
PC World
reviews and tests hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers, as well as other technology related devices such as
still
and
video cameras
, audio devices and televisions.
The current editor of
PC World
is Jon Phillips, formerly of
Wired
. In August 2012, he replaced Steve Fox, who had been editorial director since the December 2008 issue of the magazine. Fox replaced the magazine's veteran editor
Harry McCracken
, who resigned that spring,
[3]
after some rocky times, including quitting and being rehired over editorial control issues in 2007.
[4]
PC World
is published under other names such as
PC Advisor
and
PC Welt
in some countries.
PC World
'
s company name is IDG Consumer & SMB, and it is headquartered in San Francisco.
[5]
Some of the non-English
PC World
websites now
redirect
to other IDG sites; for example, PCWorld.dk (Denmark) is now
Computerworld
.dk
History
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The publication was announced at the
COMDEX
trade show in November 1982, and first appeared on newsstands in March 1983;
Felix Dennis
set up
Personal Computer World
which he later sold to VNU, and established
MacUser
which he sold to Ziff Davis Publishing in the mid-eighties.
PC Magazine
was also acquired by
Ziff Davis
.
[6]
The magazine was founded by
David Bunnell
and Cheryl Woodard, and its first editor was
Andrew Fluegelman
.
PC World
'
s magazine and web site have won a number of awards from Folio, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, MIN, the Western Publications Association, and other organizations; it is also one of the few technology magazines to have been a finalist for a
National Magazine Award
.
Many well known technology writers have contributed to
PC World
, including Steve Bass,
Daniel Tynan
, Christina Wood,
John C. Dvorak
,
Stephen Manes
, Lincoln Spector,
Stewart Alsop
, David Coursey, James A. Martin, and others. Editorial leadership has included Harry Miller, Richard Landry, Eric Knorr, Phil Lemmons, Cathryn Baskin, Kevin McKean, and Harry McCracken.
In February 1999,
PC World
'
s number of paid subscriptions reached a record of 1,000,453. At the time, it was the first and only computing magazine with a monthly release schedule to hit that mark.
[7]
In April 2005, the show
Digital Duo
was slightly
rebranded
and relaunched as
PC World's Digital Duo
, and ran for an additional 26 episodes. As of 2006,
PC World
'
s audited rate base of 750,000 made it the largest circulation computing magazine in the world.
[8]
On July 10, 2013, owner IDG announced that the magazine would cease its thirty-year print run.
[9]
The issue of August 2013 was the last printed of the magazine
PC World
, future issues would be digital only.
[10]
Countries
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Based in San Francisco,
PC World
'
s original edition is published in the United States however it is also available in other countries (51 in total), sometimes under a different name:
- PC World
in Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Denmark, Greece, India (from July 2006), Kosovo, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, Ecuador.
- PC Advisor
in Ireland and the United Kingdom. (Another now discontinued magazine called
Personal Computer World
and a
PC World
retailer ? neither related to the
PC World
magazine ? already exist or existed in those markets.)
- PC Welt
, is the German language edition.
- PCW
, is the Hungarian language edition.
[11]
- Info Komputer
, is the Indonesian language edition.
- Kompiuterija
, is the Lithuanian language edition.
- Th? Gi?i Vi Tinh
, is the Vietnamese language edition (also called
PC World Vietnam
).
- Mikro - PC World
, is the Serbian language edition.
- Мир ПК
, is the Russian language edition.
Controversy
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]
In May 2007, McCracken resigned abruptly under controversial circumstances. According to sources quoted in
Wired
, McCracken quit abruptly because the new CEO of
PC World
, Colin Crawford, tried to kill an unfavorable story about
Apple
and
Steve Jobs
.
[12]
Crawford responded, calling media reports of McCracken's resignation "inaccurate".
[13]
CNET
later reported that McCracken had told colleagues that
IDG
"was pressuring him to avoid stories that were critical of major advertisers."
[14]
[15]
On May 9, Crawford was transferred to another department, and McCracken returned to
PC World
until his departure in 2008.
[16]
See also
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References
[
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]
- ^
"eCirc for Consumer Magazines"
. Alliance for Audited Media. December 31, 2012. Archived from
the original
on January 23, 2017
. Retrieved
February 22,
2013
.
- ^
"IDG Print Publication: PCWorld"
. Archived from
the original
on April 1, 2012
. Retrieved
September 12,
2011
.
- ^
"Goodbye, Kind PC World"
. Archived from
the original
on September 6, 2011.
- ^
"Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PCW"
. Archived from
the original
on October 4, 2011.
- ^
"
contact Us
Archived
2010-01-02 at the
Wayback Machine
." PC World Communications. Retrieved December 29, 2009.
- ^
Deborah Wise (December 20, 1982).
"Staff walks out on PC Magazine, starts new journal"
.
InfoWorld
.
4
(50). Popular Computing, Inc.: 1, 10.
ISSN
0199-6649
.
- ^
"Timely News from the Interactive Entertainment Industry - PC World Reaches One Million"
.
Archived
from the original on May 20, 2001
. Retrieved
May 20,
2001
.
- ^
Gaming Guide
Archived
June 15, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Bill Mickey (July 10, 2013).
"IDG's PCWorld Going Digital-Only"
.
Folio
. Access Intelligence
. Retrieved
July 10,
2013
.
- ^
Harry McCracken (July 11, 2013).
"PCWorld Exits Print, and the Era of Computer Magazines Ends"
.
Time Magazine
. Retrieved
August 13,
2015
.
- ^
"Nem csak neveben ujul meg a PC World: Mostantol PCW-kent szeretnenk meg tobbet adni"
.
- ^
Kim Zetter,
"PC World Editor Quits Over Apple Story"
in
Wired
magazine, May 2, 2007.
- ^
"
PC World
editor quits during dispute over Apple story"
in
AppleInsider,
May 3, 2007.
- ^
Tom Krazit,
"PC World editor resigns over apparent ad pressure"
from
CNet,
May 2, 2007.
- ^
"Editor quits after PC Mag kills Apple story"
from
MacNN,
May 3, 2007.
- ^
Ramon G. McLeod,
"Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to
PCW"
Archived
May 10, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
from
PC World.com,
May 9, 2007.
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