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EDN
Cover of EDN magazine
EditorSusan Rambo
CategoriesTrade magazine
FoundedMay 1956; 68 years ago (1956-05) (as Electrical Design News)
Final issueJune 2013 (2013-06) (print)
CompanyAspenCore Media
CountryUnited States
Based inSan Francisco, California
LanguageEnglish
Websiteedn.com
ISSN0012-7515

EDN ( ISSN 0012-7515) is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media an Arrow Electronics company. The current Executive Editor is Susan Rambo with editorial offices in San Francisco and New York City. EDN magazine was published monthly, in April 2013 EDN announced that the print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue.

History

The first issue of Electrical Design News — the original name — was published May 1956 by Rogers Corporation of Englewood, Colorado.[1] In January 1961, Cahners Publishing Company, Inc., of Boston, acquired Rogers Publishing Company.[2] In February 1966, Cahners sold 40% of its company to International Publishing Company in London[3] In 1970, the Reed Group merged with International Publishing Corporation and changed its name to Reed International Limited.[4]

Acquisition of EEE magazine

Cahners Publishing Company acquired Electronic Equipment Engineering, a monthly magazine, in March 1971 and discontinued it. In doing so, Cahners folded EEE's best features into EDN,[5][failed verification] and renamed the magazine EDN/EEE. At the time, George Harold Rostky (1926–2003) had been editor-in-chief of EEE. Rostky joined EDN and eventually became editor-in-chief before leaving to join Electronic Engineering Times as editor-in-chief.[6]

Reed Limited acquires remaining interest in Cahners

In 1977, Reed acquired the remaining interest in Cahners, then known as Cahners Publications. In 1982, Reed International Limited changed its name to Reed International PLC. In 1992, Reed International merged with Elsevier NV, becoming Reed Elsevier PLC as of January 1, 1993.

Reed sells EDN to Canon Communications LLC

Reed Business Information, part of Reed Elsevier, sold the magazine to Canon Communications LLC February 2010.[7] United Business Media, now UBM LLC, acquired Canon Communications LLC in October 2010. On June 3, 2016 UBM announced that EDN along with the rest of the electronics media portfolio (EE Times, EDN, EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline and Datasheets.com) to AspenCore Media a company owned by Arrow Electronics for $23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016.

On 9 April 2013 UBM announced that EDN's print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue and that the online EDN.com community would continue.[8]

International circulation

EDN Circulation
North America[9]
Year Total Print % Digital %
1999 164,949
2000 136,024
2001 134,015
2002 134,021
2003 134,025
2004 134,025
2005 133,922
2006 134,026
2007 131,948
2008 125,011
2009 113,010
2010 113,048
2011 101,700 71,700 70.5 30,000 29.5

EDN is also published in China and Taiwan and in Europe and Japan through partner publishers who license content from UBM Canon.

Content

The website - EDN Network - caters to the needs of the working electrical engineer and cover new technologies and electronic component products at an engineering level. Columns discuss everything from managing engineers and engineering projects to technical issues faced in the design of electronic components, systems, and developing technologies.

Design ideas

The Design Ideas section features several user-submitted designs that are innovative or novel solutions to constrained design problems. Every issue features a column called "Prying Eyes" which disassembles a popular or intriguing consumer product and investigates the technologies that enable it.

Awards

In May 2006, EDN won three awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.[10] The Best Regular Department of the Year award went to Prying Eyes.

Executives & journalists

  • William M. Platt, appointed publisher of EDN in December 1967 by Cahners Publishing[11]
  • Robert H. Cushman (1924–1996) — editor for EDN from 1962 to the late-1980s covering, among other things, the early development of microprocessing

References

  1. ^ "What does EDN Stand For?". Archived from the original on 2006-10-15.
  2. ^ Robert Alden, Addenda, New York Times, January 26, 1961
  3. ^ Brendan Jones, Britons Mapping Publishing Deal, February 17, 1966
  4. ^ Reed Elsevier: History
  5. ^ Philip H. Dougherty, Making 27 and 2 Equal 28, New York Times, March 30, 1971
  6. ^ Oral history: Interview with George Rostky July 20, 1995, Silicon Genesis, Stanford University, The Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project, July 20, 1995 — transcript — video
  7. ^ Press Release: Canon Communications to Expand Global B-to-B Media Presence in Advanced Manufacturing Segment, February 16, 2010
  8. ^ "UBM Tech Announces Strategic Shift Toward Community-Focused Media and Events". UBM. April 9, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  9. ^ Business Publication Circulation Statement for the 6 Month Period Ended December 2011, Shelton, CT: BPA Worldwide, 2012
  10. ^ EDN Honored with Three National Awards from the ASBPE, EDN Press Release, May 22, 2006
  11. ^ Philip H. Dougherty, Advertising: People, New York Times, December 29, 1967
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