Updates will stop on April 10th, after which the site will be available for a “limited time”.
Amazon plans to lay off at least 27,000 employees this year, including 9,000 announced in an internal email Monday morning. Unexpected Victim:
Digital Photography Review, also known as DPReview, has lost its entire editorial team and the website will go live on his April 10th.
The announcement post, written by DPReview general his manager Scott Everett, said that new posts will continue to be posted until his April 10th, after which “the page will be suspended.” It’s unclear what will happen to the site’s content after that. The post only promises that articles on the site “will be available in read-only mode for a period of time afterward.” You can request it and download it. “After that, we will not be able to complete the request”.
Gannon Burgett, the site’s former editor, said on Twitter that the decision to lay off staff was announced in January and that “Amazon has yet to provide an archiving plan for the site.” Even digital ones tend to have a fairly long shelf life, and there is an active second-hand market for lenses and camera bodies.
Founded in November 1998, DPReview is one of the few active review his sites as old as Ars Technica. Amazon bought it in his 2007, and the site’s team has been based in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle since his 2010.
