Bye to "Off the Edge" magazine

Just heard over 89.9 FM radio today that "Off the Edge" magazine is closing.
The decision was announced about 2 weeks ago by its owners and by its editor Jason Tan. The reason is that they wanted to focus on financial journalism, ie. The Edge weekly paper-zine which is Off the Edge's more famous sister magazine/publication.
I don't blame them. In all the 6 years that Off the Edge magazine has existed, Yours Truly has bought as Yours Truly can recall, a total of only 2 copies, or at the most 3 copies. Whenever i saw the magazine at the bookshop i would without fail read my favourite columnists Patrick Teoh who wrote "Teohlogy" column and other writers such as "Si Mabuk".
But i would invariably think twice about paying RM9 (it was only RM9 when last i spotted the magazine at the bookshop) for a copy as i thought that, as entertaining and relevant as the magazine was, it was a lifestyle and leisure magazine which i could not justify buying over something else like, for example, The Edge or The Economist magazine. So if Yours Truly can think this way, and Yours Truly am sympathetic to the local arts and writing scene, you can just imagine how many other people with less arts-leaning views would base their magazine-buying decision on. Although the owners of Off The Edge magazine have not openly declared it, i would think that the magazine had a hard time surviving financially. The illustrious and reclusive sasterawan Salleh Ben Joned bemoaned the limits of the local publishing market - it is very hard to make a living as a writer in Malaysia, especially if you write non-business or non-commercial works. The arts and writing scene in Malaysia is not exactly groaning from the awful weight/burden of having to chose from among so many generous corporate sponsors/patrons! Be that as it may, as the reading public grows in numbers and spending power, one hopes that things will change for the better. And that will not be soon enough for our great and long-suffering arts and writing scene.