Comments on: The death of magazine subscription? http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/01/30/the-death-of-magazine-subscription/ Ideas, thoughts and ramblings from the Unichurch staff Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Entwistle http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/01/30/the-death-of-magazine-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-75 David Entwistle Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:27:09 +0000 http://www.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/blog/2009/01/30/the-death-of-magazine-subscription/#comment-75 I think there's a distinction to be made between the death of the magazine (not going to happen) and the death of the magazine subscription (already cold in the grave). Magazines are finding huge new audiences online, and making money from banner ads (as they always did in print, too). I wouldn't subscribe to any mag, because it's much better to peruse fifteen different mags and read the good bits (and all for free!). There's also the rise of the solely online mag, like Slate, Huff Post and Fora. These have some of the best content on the web. The only problem is that with every word of every mag coming down the cable, what do you read first? I think there’s a distinction to be made between the death of the magazine (not going to happen) and the death of the magazine subscription (already cold in the grave).

Magazines are finding huge new audiences online, and making money from banner ads (as they always did in print, too). I wouldn’t subscribe to any mag, because it’s much better to peruse fifteen different mags and read the good bits (and all for free!).

There’s also the rise of the solely online mag, like Slate, Huff Post and Fora. These have some of the best content on the web.

The only problem is that with every word of every mag coming down the cable, what do you read first?

]]> By: Jon Rumble http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/01/30/the-death-of-magazine-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Jon Rumble Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:35:24 +0000 http://www.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/blog/2009/01/30/the-death-of-magazine-subscription/#comment-74 Nah, especially as the Amazon Kindle and related devices develop over the next few years... The advantage of being electronic - cheap, no paper, instaneous, can carry millions of pages in the palm of your hand; plus the advantage of a book - solid thing in your hand, not tied to a PC, special screen that isn't backlit so it reads like paper and doesn't give you eye strain... Now just need to wait for it in Oz! But it will be nice to have your Fin Review and the Australian arrive on your bedside table each morning right Rors? :) Nah, especially as the Amazon Kindle and related devices develop over the next few years… The advantage of being electronic – cheap, no paper, instaneous, can carry millions of pages in the palm of your hand; plus the advantage of a book – solid thing in your hand, not tied to a PC, special screen that isn’t backlit so it reads like paper and doesn’t give you eye strain…

Now just need to wait for it in Oz! But it will be nice to have your Fin Review and the Australian arrive on your bedside table each morning right Rors? :)

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