Amazon layoffs will shut down digital camera assessment web site DPReview.com after 25 years

Amazon has plans to put off at the very least 27,000 staff this 12 months, together with 9,000 that have been introduced in an inner electronic mail Monday morning. One surprising casualty: Digital Images Assessment, often known as DPReview, is shedding its whole editorial employees, and the positioning will cease publishing on April 10.

The announcement publish, written by DPReview Normal Supervisor Scott Everett, says that new items will proceed to be posted via April 10, and “the positioning can be locked” afterward. It is unclear what’s going to occur to the positioning’s content material afterward—the publish guarantees solely that the positioning’s articles “can be accessible in read-only mode for a restricted interval afterwards.” Any pictures and textual content that readers have uploaded to their accounts could be requested and downloaded till April 6, “after which we won’t be able to finish the request.”

Former web site editor Gannon Burgett stated on Twitter that the choice to put off the employees was introduced in January and that “Amazon hasn’t but provide you with an archival plan” for the positioning. Cameras, even digital ones, are likely to have a reasonably lengthy shelf life, and there is an lively used marketplace for lenses and digital camera our bodies—if DPReview.com goes offline totally, that will be an enormous blow to anybody making an attempt to analysis older merchandise.

Based in November 1998, DPReview is among the few lively assessment websites as outdated as Ars Technica. Amazon bought it in 2007, and the positioning’s group has been positioned in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle since 2010.