Ziff Davis Media will close the print edition of flagship PC Magazine with its January issue, following which it will be an all-digital brand, available at PCMag.com, MediaWeek reported Wednesday.

Due to the closing, seven print production staffers will be leaving, and print subscribers will be given a digital version of the printed magazine, according to the company.

Although magazines across the board have been struggling, computing magazines have been hit hardest, due to tech savvy readers increasingly preferring the Web, MediaWeek reported. This year, the 27 year-old PC Magazine had to cut its rate base to 600,000 from 700,000 and put out 12 issues per year, down from around 25, according to MediaWeek.

The magazine's ad pages also suffered, plummeting 35.8 percent to 330 in the first six months of 2008, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau, MediaWeek reported.

In 2008, PC Magazine's rival, PC World, also dropped its rate base to 600,000 from 710,000, MediaWeek reported.