Can anyone verify the rumour circulating that the WIZARD racing paper is no more - replaced by internet access ONLY.

Cheers.
darky.

Understand 12th of May will be their last edition.

Thank you.
Pity really as I liked the convenience of the paper.

Cheers.
darky.

Just received a very nice reply from Warren on the everyrace site.
Last edition this Thursday.

Cheers.
darky.

Pity. Wizard Direct will give you the same information as the Wizard newspaper for the same price plus additional meetings for a Saturday but it will obviously be a bit much printing out everything for even one meeting. I'm used to scribbling and scrawling and circling stuff with red ink on my weekly Wizard. Won't be able to do that with a pdf file in my computer.

Sadly, this is the direction of publishing now, it won't be long before only magazines are available at a newsagent.

Newspapers and even the Trading Post are all going to be E-zines.

I like the traditional form of publishing, feeling the paper, looking at the pictures etc.

It comes down to cost, they will still publish cut down versions of the paper for commuters etc, but why pay for paper, labour, ink etc, when you can pay one or two web publishers and still charge the same amount?

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