Dennis Publishing chairman Felix Dennis issued an apocalyptic view of the future of magazine publishing at the CEPI annual meeting in Brussels.


Using a Bob Dylan line, Dennis predicted: Its a hard-rain thats gonna fall.
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He said the four horsemen of the apocalypse new technology, environmental pressure, growing illiteracy and increased costs would pose an intense threat to magazines.


I do not predict the death of magazines, but let us say we have entered into the autumn of ink on paper after a glorious summer of more than 50 years.


Dennis warned that he had seen his own nemesis at a recent exhibition in the shape of a titanium-framed e-book capable of holding half a dozen books that flips out to the size of a magazine.


I stepped out of the building shuddering, he said. And then I went and got drunk.


Story by Andy Scott