Why should anyone care that BYTE Magazine folded?
If you didn’t read BYTE, you probably have no reason to care. But a great many people depended on BYTE to keep abreast of computer technology across multiple platforms. Also, it’s a historical loss. BYTE was founded in 1975, the same year the first kit-built personal computers appeared for sale. BYTE closely followed the first personal-computer magazine, Creative Computing, which began publication a few months earlier in 1975. Back to frequently asked questions Was BYTE losing readers? Was it losing popularity? Readership was not BYTE’s problem. BYTE’s circulation was about half a million, which is quite large for any computer magazine and especially for a publication as technical as BYTE. The subscription renewal rate was nearly 80 percent, which is astronomically high. Most computer magazines won’t reveal their renewal rates because it’s often less than half that much. BYTE’s single-copy (newsstand) sales were not as high as we would have liked, but they were running near the industr
