Stay Free!, a long-standing non-profit Brooklyn zine and blog about media and consumer culture has decided to go online only. According to a blog posting by top dog Carrie McLaren (no relation to our own Ryan McLaren), "Selling ads has gotten all but impossible. Indie record labels and small book publishers -- our bread-and-butter -- are in the toilet. Ditto newsstand sales. No one goes to book stores looking for zines anymore; the nerds are all online. And while I once welcomed the challenge of making things work on a tight budget, I just can't bring myself to beg another distributor to pay us the money they owe -- or to beg more local stores to let us leave out free magazines."

It reminds me of the oddly titled "Indie Mag Revolution" article printed in Eye Weekly back in January that mostly discussed how independent publishers are giving up or making their way online.