Computer Shopper (US magazine)

Not to be confused with Computer Shopper (UK magazine).

Computer Shopper is a monthly consumer computer magazine that was published by SX2 Media Labs. The magazine ceased print publication in April 2009.^[1][2] The website was closed and redirected to the PCMag website in late May 2018.^[3][4]

Computer Shopper

Editor	John A. Burek
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Founded	1979
Final issue	April 2009
Company	SX2 Media Labs
Country	United States
Based in	Titusville, Florida
Language	English
Website	computershopper.com
ISSN	0886-0556

History

Computer Shopper magazine was established in 1979 in Titusville, Florida.^[5] It began as a tabloid-size publication on yellow newsprint that primarily contained classified advertising and ads for kit computers, parts, and software. The magazine was created by Glenn Patch, publisher of the photo-equipment magazine Shutterbug Ads, in the hopes of applying its formula to a PC-technology magazine.^[6] The magazine expanded into prebuilt home computers and white box IBM PC compatibles through the 1980s.^[7]

The magazine grew to several hundred pages, mostly of advertisements.^[7] It was during this time that the magazine was sold to Ziff Davis Publishing, first as a limited partnership,^[8] then solely owned. It was sold in 2000, along with Ziff-Davis' ZDNet Web site, to CNET. CNET sold Computer Shopper to new owners, SX2 Media Labs, in 2006.^[9] In April 2009, SX2 Media Labs discontinued the print version of the magazine.^[10] The business continued on as a Web entity, ComputerShopper.com, which was reacquired by Ziff-Davis in 2012.^[9]

List of editors-in-chief

John A. Burek (2008–2017)^[11]