• by Ray Schultz , January 11, 2023

InTech magazine, the flagship publication of the International Society of Automation (ISA) will soon be all tech: it is ending its print edition and will now be published only in PDF format six times a year.

It seems appropriate—if a little belated—that the ISA publication would go all-digital. 

The magazine found in a reader survey that 67% read InTech's digital edition, which is delivered via email. And 38% visit visit www.ISA.org/InTech to read there. But 46% never pick up a paper issue.  

“We’ve seen the writing on the wall for a couple years now: Fewer of you every year hold paper copies of InTech to read them,” Renee Bassett wrote in the December 2022 issue. “At the same time, costs for paper, printing, and postage keep climbing, and calls for a more sustainable approach keep coming in.”

Bassett added that The InTech FOCUS ebook, which has supplemented InTech magazine, will be folded into the InTech Magazine e-book.. 

In addition, the magazine will offer a new feature: InTech Whitepapers.  

“Longer than magazine articles and shorter than books, InTech Whitepapers are single-topic, in-depth reports with citations,” Bassett writes. “These will be distributed via  existing ISA.org and Automation.com digital channels and will be online alongside InTech magazine ebooks.