Well, fingerboarder magazine in a solid state is history. Now to become just another online site..

Fingerboarder Magazine wrote:

Being a little old-school style collectors we have a love for books, printed magazines, and vinyl records, so after the first testing issue in 2009 we decided to continue with the printed magazine and so far 4 issues were released.
The feedback was an overwhelming experience – just like the time & labor and printing costs for a magazine in two language versions!

Channels of distribution were one of the huge challenges making it hard to reach fingerboarders everywhere, no matter how much they wanted to get the magazines and to be honest kids nowadays have a different media-comprehension compared to old-school collectors like us. There is not much space left for printed media in a digital world.
Everyone liked the magazines but rates for shipping overseas automatically sealed some fingerboarders of from getting to see the magazine.

We finished issue 4 and in long meetings decided to put aside our „old-school-nostalgia“ and focus on our primary idea with the magazine.

All we wanted was to reach as many fingerboarders with multifaceted and interesting fingerboard culture.

With other words we will concentrate more on the online version of Fingerboarder Magazine from now on.
It is NOT a news-site!! Others already run fabulous news-sites! We will offer articles, interviews, reportages, in depth-features, checkouts, background information and a lot more.
This way more fingerboarders will be able to read the magazine content and compared to the printed magazine it will be for FREE!

However we are not entirely through with the printed version. We have plans for a few smaller special issues from time to time handed out for free at events and on other occasions.

We are looking forward to these new challenges, a new lap begins and we can`t wait getting to know fingerboarding from yet another perspective – our basic idea with the magazine has not changed a bit! Fingerboarder Magazine is alive – perhaps even more than ever before!

Today we are celebrating the “relaunch” of the existing magazine website with numerous articles from the printed magazines, with a special GRIPSKIN crew check-out, and with new comic art!

We have tons of articles ready and you will be surprised what you will find online in the future!!

Enjoy!

Who could see this coming..lol..it was only a matter of time im afraid! Thaughts?

Things you can touch, feel and treashure is eventually disapearing into thin air. Next up on the list to dissapear in the near future from a solid state is the cd`s, dvd`s and bluray discs. Everything finally goes online in the cloud. All you will need is bandwidth and you are good to go! -> anytime! -> any where!

Do we like it? Is it something we want, or is it all a bit sad? I think it is..

I like that it's more accessible to people, but I get what you mean. Although the stack of magazines in my bedroom is annoying, I'd much prefer that to just a folder of images on my computer. The steady decline of tangible 'items' is saddening.

^that. Makes me sad I might OT be able to get a copy of issue four as well

^dude I have some on fingersized : o

I'm kind of bummed if this means no issue five as I paid 75 euros for a fingersized advert in it, haha..

seriously though, way more bummed at the loss of this physical copy. I'll never forget how stoked I was first reading issue 1, seeing that from fingerboarding blew my mind. shame this has come to this - some things deserve cluttering up rooms

^you do?! I tried adding one to my cart when I bought the Blosom and it said they were out of stock! I shall purchase one this afternoon

whoa same time as skateboarder magazine announces they will no longer be in print. Magazines are dying! Not cool.

damn, i really wish i'd known about this before it died so i could support it a bit. Magazines are the best, only issue is you can't watch a video on one. But there is something special about a photo in how perfect it can be framed and composed - there is little room on the internet for photos or articles it seems. Just videos.

So yeah, a pity :/

I loved the hard-print version, but this is ok, I guess. Now we can't fingerboard on mike Schneider and TKY's faces anymore.

just ordered magazine 4 of fingersized, shame to see the physical copy go, thought they were awesome. Hope the way it runs on the website goes well though

I'm surprised they don't go for like a digital magazine you can read as a PDF type thing or on a phone/tablet. I'd pay for something like that in an instant.

Kerry, I think they said they were moving to an online version.

Shame really, i'd much prefer purchasing and reading a physical copy than scrolling through a web page,
maybe that's just me?