There’s no way that today’s economy can support both AVN and XBiz. Both perform the same editorial function. Both rely on the good will of industry advertising which is not what it used to be, and one of them, in an all-out scrum is going to have to go.

Because there’s so much duplication of effort, if this were a real corporation or industry, a hatchet man would have already handed out the pink slips.

Lest you think I’m harping on any one in particular, the same shakeout is occurring right now between Adultcon and Victory Tradeshow Management, the owners of the Exxxotica shows. Today the LA Times wrote a pretty good story about a feud between the two entities that no one was apparently aware of.

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