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.
Get you stie to work with and without dub dub dub genius.
Posted by: Hey Genius... | July 21, 2008 at 02:31 PM
Hey, I like wrestling magazines!
Posted by: choey | July 22, 2008 at 02:24 PM