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'A truly sad day': NME to close print edition after 66 years

The magazine became free in September 2015, after years of declining sales.

NME IS TO close its print edition after 66 years.

The iconic music magazine’s website will continue, as will its new weekly digital franchise The Big Read.

The magazine became free in September 2015, after its circulation dropped to 15,000. The website launched in 1997.

“Our move to free print has helped propel the brand to its biggest ever audience on NME.com,” Paul Cheal of Time Inc, which publishes NME, told the Guardian.

“We have also faced increasing production costs and a very tough print advertising market. It is in the digital space where effort and investment will focus to secure a strong future for this famous brand.”

Time Inc UK is consulting with NME’s 23 editorial and commercial staff about possible redundancies, the Guardian said.

Musicians, contributors and fans have been paying tribute to the publication, with Kasabian describing today as “truly sad”.

The last print edition will be available this Friday.

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    Apr 4th 2015, 8:57 AM

    i’ll wait until they invent a pet that doesn’t poop.

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    Apr 4th 2015, 10:29 AM

    Mark you can train rabbits to not poop in the house! My one is a great girl! I bring her in and she either goes in the little poop set-up corner or she doesn’t go at all! She’s really clean!

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:13 PM

    That’ll be cool

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:55 PM

    My missus says her rabbit never poops, she keeps it in the beside locker drawer.

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    Apr 4th 2015, 4:23 PM

    We can

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    Apr 4th 2015, 8:49 PM

    We are having Beef for Easter Rabbit won’t feed 6 !

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    Apr 4th 2015, 9:10 AM

    Well my cat brought an Easter bunny to my back door this morning!!

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:47 PM

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    Apr 4th 2015, 9:28 AM

    Someone should tell Hugh Hefner then.

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    Bunnies are for the pot.

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    Tastes like chicken.

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:40 PM

    Don’t know who’s worse the buyers or the seller’s

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    Apr 4th 2015, 2:56 PM

    People don’t realise how much rabbits cost as pets, there considered “exotics” so it’s much dearer to treat should they need a vet, they cost a lot more to keep than a cat or dog!

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:31 PM

    How?

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    Apr 4th 2015, 8:53 AM

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    Apr 4th 2015, 4:05 PM

    This article has got me thinking…….I’d love a few chicks out the back garden!

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    Apr 4th 2015, 3:55 PM

    A hen is for life not just for Easter .

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    Apr 4th 2015, 8:55 AM

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    Apr 4th 2015, 11:10 AM

    They make a tasty Easter bunny stew.

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    Apr 4th 2015, 10:46 AM

    Bunnies can’t smoke pot !!! Lol

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    Apr 4th 2015, 11:48 PM

    We didn’t have the easter bunny in our house because first off its just stupid and second not an irish tradition at all! Santa was the main man!!

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    Apr 4th 2015, 5:21 PM

    My bunny rogered the bunny next door a few years ago…

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