Letter to the Reaper

I find your website to be of great interest and your insights into the magazine business invaluable.  However, as someone who has always subscribed to too many magazines, I am somewhat put off by your tone.  You often seem to be a little too happy to report on the demise, or more often, the pending demise of one periodical or another.   Did you have a bad experience in the magazine publishing world?

 

I have to admit to being split on the entire subject.   I am amazed and confounded by the number of titles on display at the bookstore - and would not miss 90% of them if they disappeared, except for the simple pleasure of seeing that much variety available.   If all the golf, and travel, and craft, and guns, and wrestling (etc) mags were to disappear, that would be OK with me.   Of course, if the New Yorker or Scientific American (or even EW) died, I would feel badly.   Hell, I still mourn the loss of Saturday Review and Civilization.

 

Of course, you have figured out by now that I am an old timer, who loved the days when every decent sized city had at least two dailies, and the news was not reduced to bloggers quoting each other.    

 

Despite my qualms about celebrating the death of almost anything in print, I do enjoy your posts.   I hope that the difficult environment for print favors the publications of quality.   Of course,  I have little hope that will be the case.   But, then again, didn't you report that US was in trouble.   I had thought that might be the last magazine in print.

Jim M.

Comments

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