another magazine bites the dust

I don't like the mag, but my sisters long time BF is an editor there.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/03/blender-magazin.html

bad time to be in print.

never read it. But I must agree it seems like a bad time for print.

Never even heard of it... but I can imagine the print industry is a rough one right now... especially for something as "current" as the music industry...

We car-guys seem to like holding an actual paper rag... more comfortable than sitting on the can with a lap-top... so I'm guessing car mags will be one of the last to go...

My M-i-L subscribed to Country Weekly or something like that. A couple weeks ago there was a letter from them saying the mag was no more and any remaining subscription would be transferred over to something else if you asked.

Dr. Hess wrote: My M-i-L subscribed to Country Weekly or something like that. A couple weeks ago there was a letter from them saying the mag was no more and any remaining subscription would be transferred over to something else if you asked.

I had that happen to a start-up biking magazine I subscribed to a number of years ago... after 3 issues, it folded and my subscription was transfered to Velonews...

Dr. Hess wrote: My M-i-L subscribed to Country Weekly or something like that. A couple weeks ago there was a letter from them saying the mag was no more and any remaining subscription would be transferred over to something else if you asked.

I died of boredom just reading the title of the mag...

Yeah

Blue Print - MSO mag has died

and

Wonder tIme

My sister worked at both.

Here's a funny societal comment I got from the original article:

Article said: The title was launched in 2001

and I actually worked at Blender for a long time

Our local newspaper is shrinking in page SIZE and number, and the newstand price just went up (again) so it now costs $0.75 a day. I wouldn't pay $0.25 a day for it, and it looks like with the latest round of layoffs, it's only a matter of time before it folds....permanently.

ignorant wrote: Yeah Blue Print - MSO mag has died and Wonder tIme My sister worked at both.

Please, please, please ask her not to get a job at GRM.

Toyman01 wrote:

ignorant wrote: Yeah Blue Print - MSO mag has died and Wonder tIme My sister worked at both.

Please, please, please ask her not to get a job at GRM.

no problem..

She won't leave NYC no matter what. but the market for magazines is saturated. Natural contraction going on.

That's a bummer. I subscribed for a year. Decent enough magazine. I still subscribe to Spin, though--much snootier.

I think magazines will come back. There's still something to be said for reading a magazine on the couch on a Sunday. Much more tactile than a laptop, IMHO.

Actually, I hate reading magazines online--I think I've read one Winding Road in the past year and a half.

I subscribed to "european car" as a digital issue...it was about half price, and I think it was worth it. I wouldn't have paid full price for the subscription, but its okay at 6 bucks for a year...

I don't have a problem with digital issues...but for certain magazines, the tactility of it is important...evo for example wouldn't be the same in digital. GRM for another example.