Does anybody still read magazines?

[DanielDudley]

I get ''Road & Track'' delivered for 9 dollars a year. It can be very good some months. I get Octane at the news stand.

I have ''The Week'' delivered. They make an effort to cover the opinions of both Left and Right, and they try to throw in things they think you might have missed. I get the NYT online, and I read the news. I never read the Op Ed pages.

[petrolhead611]

I used to read all the free to an advertiser classic car magazines.Got tired of the constant repetition of car models that attracted the advertisers. Also complained without success about frequent inaccuracies in the articles in one magazine.
Nowadays read Motorsport back copies for free online .
Still have mountains of car magazines and airplane magazines that I haven't the heart to throw out .

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by petrolhead611

Still have mountains of car magazines and airplane magazines that I haven't the heart to throw out .

I have an entire wall of car magazines. I have no idea what to do with them anymore. I used to go through them and look for favorite cars or articles, but I haven't done that in many years.

[David]

Not as many as I used to but we do get:
Autoweek
Motortrend
Panorama (comes with PCA membership)
Time (it must be a lifetime subscription that my ex wife had, I never read it)
Bonappetit (current wife’s)

Some changes are that I don’t save them anymore and I’ve thrown away most of my old ones. I’m also more likely to let them expire until an exceptionally good multi year offer comes.

My ex wife who worked in a university library said at the end of an interview with a new librarian candidate he asked all the interviewers what magazines they took. I thought it was an interesting way to quickly get a feel for a person. I think my ex wife was particularly happy to include playboy in the many magazine subscriptions we had at the time

[wildthing]

I used to keep magazines, and then I figured I never look them up again. I posted it on Craigslist for free and someone picked up twice already... The non-automotive ones I started leaving in places where people sit around.

[Rinty]

[QUOTE=wdfifteen;10181261]...but the paper magazine industry is sustainable.../QUOTE]

This is good news. And I wouldn't want to see the newspapers closing down.

[tabs]

I get one magazine for life as part of a membership.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by PorscheGAL

Interestingly fashion mags used to have a huge Sept issue to coincide with NY Fashion week...This year there are no special Sept issues...It is cheaper for a designer to send a free outfit to a big blogger than advertise in a magazine.
I think a lot of magazines that have been around decades will suffer a similar fate.

I agree...I think we're witnessing the demise of print media in general. The internet and smart phone hit this industry hard & fast. Must be quite challenging being pushed to come up with new ways to stay relevant in a such rapidly-changing environment.

Maybe more people are reading these 'Lifestyle' mags than I would've thought...at least enough to bring in some ad dollars. I would imagine that it takes a fair bit of $$ to get a print magazine up & running these days. I think the magazine's decline will eventually impact the printing industry too.