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Old 04-08-2021, 03:05 PM   #1
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Not specifically related to the porn thread but I guess not unrelated either... is there still room in today’s world for physical magazines? Do people even buy magazines anymore? More importantly, do kids today even know what a centrefold is?!?

I faithfully subscribed to Sports Illustrated back in the day (thanks to a healthy discount for being in University); for decades they used to publish weekly but last year they finally switched to monthly, presumably because of declining revenue.

I also remember as a kid buying issues like “Hockey Stars” and “Great Goalies”.

Like the daily newspaper, another dying form of media it seems...
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:10 PM   #2
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I had a subscription to Bike for 20 or so years. They came to a sad end last fall, and are sending me Mens Journal magazine as a substitution. But it's basically like a bunch of blog articles. I will not be re-subscribing.


It was sad to see Bike die. They had so many great stories and awesome photos.
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:29 PM   #3
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I had a subscription to The Hockey News from 1990 until 2018 or 2019. For like the last 6 years of my subscription I ready maybe one or two issues per year on top of the yearbook.

Other than that, I don't remember buying a magazine for well over a decade.

Somebody at work as a subscription to tabloid magazines and brings them in to the staff lounge, but I think she even stopped doing that because I don't think I saw them for the last couple of years (especially not this last year since we're all working from home and banned from using the staff lounge when we are in the building).

As a Kid I always got WWF magazine, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated and a couple of other Wrestling magazines. I would pick up one of those every now and then until around 2000 when broadband internet finally came to Lethbridge.

When I go to Vegas I bring home the magazines (or promotional booklets) that they leave in your hotel rooms and promptly put them on my bedside table to be buried by my tablet and whatever book I'm reading.

I do miss reading magazines though, but they are a bit expensive to keep buying month after month when you can find similar or exact content on the internet.
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:36 PM   #4
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It will be a sad day when kids can't head downtown to a News Agents and look through porn mags at the back of the store.

The one just north of the bay on 7th Ave and there were also a couple on 8th Ave as well.
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:44 PM   #5
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Just because you referenced it in your thread title and I read about it recently, here's an interesting fact.

The word "magazine" in this sense was coined by a London bookseller named Edward Cave in 1731. He created the Gentlemen's Magazine, a compendium of miscellaneous articles. Up to that point, a magazine was an arsenal or repository of weapons. Cave's intention was to use it to mean a repository of ideas and knowledge, and the term ended up sticking.

I too kinda miss magazines and like the idea of a subscription showing up in my mailbox every month, but I can't justify it. The only thing I've ever physically subscribed to was comic books and after a while they just ended up piling up unread, so I suspect that's what would happen if I subscribed now.

When we were kids, there was another kid in our neighbourhood who's dad had a job delivering unsold magazines to be pulped but he instead gave a bunch to his kid who would go around the doors selling them for 10p each. We'd always get the wrestling and football magazines, my dad would get the true crime stuff and my mam would get her women's magazines. All with the mastheads torn off.

I used to buy Q (music mag) religiously as a teenager, and occasionally bought National Geographic and its history version as an adult, but haven't bought a magazine in years now.
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I used to buy and subscribe to a number of magazines. ex. Outside, Planetary Report, Dragon.

Now I really only buy them for vacation or long flights - ex. Games magazine for puzzles. The odd music magazine ex. Big Takeover, Magnet. Astronomy magazines for my son and his telescope. Every year I get Barry Mitchell's Alberta Fishing Guide. Some years, a Hockey Fantasy Draft magazine.
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Old 04-08-2021, 04:44 PM   #7
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I used to subscribe to a couple cycling magazine but found the convenience and interactive features of the digital versions much more engaging (embedded videos, interactive graphics, etc).

I feels like the information in most magazines is already out of date by the time they're published so for me to want to read one it has to contain more "timeless" or in-depth articles.

My 11 year old has a subscription to Thrasher magazine and getting that in the mail always gets him excited and he tears through the issues. I think it's a great way to get them to or keep them reading.
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Old 04-08-2021, 04:57 PM   #8
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I used to love the Hockey Digest.

My two favourite articles were “Who’s Better?” And “The Game I’ll Never Forget”
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I subscribe to National Geographic and Canada's History, and get giddy whenever the new issue arrives.
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I still subscribe to the Hockey News. I had a subscription to the Economist but gave it up recently.

There’s something more engaging and peaceful about reading a magazine at the breakfast table than flicking through web pages on a tablet. It’s the same reason why I still buy hardcopy books. There’s also a simple pleasure in finding a magazine in the mailbox - a little weekly or monthly present to yourself. The best was coming home from school when I was a teenager and seeing the latest Savage Sword of Conan in the mailbox.
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Reader’s Digest paper and Hockey News online occasionally through my library.
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My wife is an independent magazine publisher and for a few years I did logistics and customer support. There's definitely a lot of turnover in terms of the magazine industry and there has been for the last decade or so. Most magazines are relying largely on ads for revenue, and that can fluctuate wildly, and there were a lot of magazines that totally mismanaged their transition to partially digital platforms back a decade-or-so ago; they'd branch out into online, their physical copy readship would go down, meaning their per-unit cost on the physical copies would go up, and pretty soon they'd be in a position where the physical magazine no longer made sense, and needed to be shuttered or kept only for its presence than as a revenue stream.
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Popular Mechanics - great blend of cars, tools, and the military. Lately I get mine through Overdrive on a tablet through the Calgary Public Library.
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We have been subscribers to the New Yorker for decades. But I doubt we’ll renew after this one runs out. The magazine has shifted considerably to the left and has become unbearably partisan. Just like SNL, in a way. I loved both and it makes me sad. Bygones.

I stopped my subscription to The Economist a couple of years ago, because by the time we receive and read it, it’s mostly yesterday’s news.

Architectural Digest is a nice publication, but too much advertising made it annoying. Stopped too.

No more magazine subscriptions. Calgary Herald and Globe & Mail are still active for now. Coffee and two papers in the morning - is our ritual.
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Never subscribed to any magazines but I was addicted to wrestling magazines and would end up buying most every month from the newsstand. WWF, WCW, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, wrestling Almanac, and the grand daddy of them all WOW (world of wrestling). Loved all the mini posters of Sunny, Sable, and all the other female divas in their bikini shots!
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i used to buy several bicycle related magazines per month and i would read them front to back, and then back to front.

eventually, it jsut became so much cheaper to subscribe electronically and i find i do not read the e-version nearly as closely. Some months i forget that i have one to read, and eventuallyu catch up. However, i have gotten older and purchased my dream bike - so that plays into it a bit
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My GF is getting interested in the stock market. Went down to the drug store to find that MoneySense hasn't existed in physical form in over 5 years. Who knew.

That's about all I have to contribute.
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My GF is getting interested in the stock market. Went down to the drug store to find that MoneySense hasn't existed in physical form in over 5 years. Who knew.

That's about all I have to contribute.
Wow, I remember reading some pretty good articles in MoneySense awhile back. Are you saying that was five years ago?!?

Man, getting old sucks ☹️
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I'm pretty sure MoneySense got sold to a mortgage broker group who converted it into a lead generating tool, iirc.

I used to subscribe to Forbes, back when it had investing ideas. I let it lapse when we had kids as I was too busy. I got a cheap offer sometime during the pandemic and signed up again. As far as I can tell its now just "rich people celebrity gossip" with no actual valuable content. I've been putting the issues direct to recycling and won't renew.
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Wow, I remember reading some pretty good articles in MoneySense awhile back. Are you saying that was five years ago?!?

Man, getting old sucks ☹️
When we couldn't find it at the drug store, walmart, or chapters I looked it up.
2016. Yet no one here started a "Moneysense RIP 2016" thread.

They still exist online. Dark days. Dark days.

Kidding aside, it's actually kind of sad. They had some good stock picks, and some good articles on basic financial sense. A juxtaposition of the Financial Post's column of " This 64 year old couple has 8 rental homes, a condo in Toronto, and 3 cabins in cottage country? How will they ever retire???"

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