Opinions on magazines

#1 I have had magazines aroundme as long as I can remember. The early 60's when my brother would throw them away, I would jsut takem them out and look at the pictures - I couldn't even read!! I can't and won't give that up. Though now I just read 'em and put 'em away for future reference, or to just look at later.
I definitely spend more time on the web than reading, but that hands on experience. The feel, the smell, the sight. Will be hard to ever replace. Best of luck Dave. I hope you left a good captiain in charge with good direction from you, my subscription is far from up!! Tim

 

Keep in mind that most people on this site have embraced older, perhaps luddite ways of thinking that older is better and new is no good. I'd say that most people on this page will naturally be biased towards choice #1, so the feed back you get from this thread does not represent the general public.

I do a punk rock Zine called Chicken-Head Records for over 6 years now and I've noticed that people are picking it up less and less. When I go to drop off the new issue, there are still copies of the last one there. It's full of words, younger people are disinclined to read, so there it sits. I could be that is sucks, but I'm sure on that one.

When I used to go out and be social, the new pick up line is "are you on myspace" yes, disgusting I know.

I was talking to one of the editors of Hot Rod and he said that ten years ago, if they only sold 800,000 copies of thier mag, some one would get fired, now the same 800,000 is a good number. The web is the new way it seems like Vinyl was replaced by CD's, there will always be a few who keep the torch lit for older mediums.

The same editor for hot rod said he can do a more in depth artile on the web with tons of pics etc, in print he has to truncate things to a few pages. So the print mag (I've felt) if often lacking in depth.

I'd say a print magazine has to be substantial, lots of words, losts of pics, lots of ads. Ads are fine, I've used them. Most car magazines come off as semi-literate, thin, and one dementional. It takes less than a half hour to go thought one for 5 bucks...the dollars to doughnuts is just not there.

Magazines have become kitchz, a novelity if you will. The have thier work cut out for them if they are to survive.

 

1. definatly!

I love having magazines to flip through. the internet is great and all...but id rather have something i can keep forever.
It's great when you can say..."oooh man i remember this one article..." and have easily accessible information in a stack on the coffee table to refer back to

and for the record....Garage ROX!

 

#1

Ever try sitting on the throne while managing a laptop and a cup of coffee?

 

I vote #1 for many of the same reasons already stated.