Printed Magazines

[barry1010]

Do any of you still buy magazines regularly?
My mother used to buy several every week, my wife stopped buying them years ago.
I subscribe to the TV Times, The Oldie and Computer Active. My little indulgences.
I don't know if printed magazines have much of a future, really.

[emmie]

not for years, i used to buy some womens mags, often for the crosswords, now i can't be bothered, and they have shot up in price.

[barry1010]

I have just realised that I haven't looked at the magazine rack in any shop for years - I'm thinking there is probably far fewer magazines than there used to be.
Can you still buy Autotrader? I can't imagine why anyone would as their website is really good, and up to date.

[emmie]

i have occasion to visit waitrose and their racks are full to brimming with magazines. i think autotrader mag is still going.

[barry1010]

Thanks, emmie, I am surprised at that

[emmie]

looking it up i can't find any info - it might have been axed

[barry1010]

I've just read that the last print edition of Auto Trader was in 2013, earlier than I thought.

[emmie]

shame but these things happen.

[LadyCG]

OH subscribes to Today's Golfer. I don't buy magazines any more.

[davebro]

Last time I looked there were a few surprises - who would have thought that routing (using a tool to make patterns in wood) would have enough followers to sustain TWO dedicated mags!

[ZebuSanctuary]

I subscribe to the Radio Times. It gets delivered to my door every Tues or Weds. Once it did not arrive until Saturday and therefore I was entitled to a part refund of my subscription fee - £2.80 if I recollect. It contains some really interesting features eg. Article on Money Matters. Works out about £1.10 a week cheaper as opposed to purchasing it over the counter in a shop :-)

[davebro]

I cancelled my subs to Private Eye because it depresses me to read about all the chicanery that goes on & I can do nothing about it. It cost me 30 odd quid for the year I had it but I won £100 on the crossword so hey....

[10ClarionSt]

I regularly subscribed to Digital Photo. Still got them all plus the tutorial DVD's that were given with them. I have regularly bought others but they are becoming very hard to find recently.

[barry1010]

davebro, do you think that people who are into fancy routing don't use computers?
Zebu, every so often I phone Radio Times to cancel - they always offer me a further discount to stay with them :D I do it with all the mags I subscribe to

[barry1010]

10C, I remember when computer mags came with a CD of free software, long before the days of fast internet. I've still got a lot of the CDs, don't suppose they are much use now

[ZebuSanctuary]

// I phone Radio Times to cancel - they always offer me a further discount to stay //

LOL... I shall try that. Thanks for the advice!

[ZebuSanctuary]

// I phone Radio Times to cancel //

Apparently the one magazine which is very difficult to unsubscribe from is the 'Readers Digest'. My mate (back in the mid 1980s) had a terrible time in trying to cancel his subscription.

Short of selling his soul to the Presbyterian Church of Latter day Monks, he found the solution in his brother (a qualified solicitor in law by profession). He was to write a letter (on official law firm practice headed paper) to the RD, stating that imminent court proceedings would ensue if they did not cease forthwith the taking of sums of money from my mate's bank account. Lo and behold, the following month and all future months, the Direct Debit payments stopped!

By all accounts, the RD have a dreadful reputation in matters of this kind.

[tiggerblue10]

I used to subscribe to Heat and one or two others which I can't remember the names of but I haven't bought a magazine for over 10 years now. Actually, I tell a lie..........I bought a couple of house and home ones for ideas, just after I bought my house. They weren't cheap!

I think newspapers are the same. You can read most of them free on line.

[Old_Geezer]

Rarely now-a-days. Maybe a New Scientist every couple of months if it looks to have interesting articles, but I no longer think it value for the cost. Maybe once a year, something else that happens to catch my eye.

[barry1010]

Zeb, I think Reader's Digest (surely it should be Readers' Digest?) has improved a lot since it suffered from all the adverse publicity about its promotion tactics duping the elderly and vulnerable, it's changed hands a few times, too.

[pastafreak]

I used to buy a lot of interior design mags, BBC Good food, and Radio Times. It's a good 10 years since I bought them.
Whsmith still has a wall of magazines...someone must be buying them.
In the States, I always had several subscriptions...they were so cheap. I was disappointed when we moved here and I discovered there was far less savings in subscribing here.