I have had a subscription to Cycle World on and off now since 1975. Today I got my new issue and I knew before I cracked the cover what had just happened....the magazine was unusually thick, the paper stock was heavier, it went from being a traditional folded and stapled magazine to a square edge binding. I looked at it and turned to my wife and said, “I’ll bet you this is no longer a monthly magazine.”
I opened the cover and sure enough. The editorial in the front of the mag said a bunch of stuff about the realities of the publishing business, blah blah blah....
Bottom line is they are now a quarterly and they are trying to push you to their website where I’m sure the advertising pays more and the overhead is less.
So for me, it was a good run, but I won’t renew my subscription. The same for Motorcyclist magazine, fewer issues, less content. They try to sell you on the new look and the heavy stock paper. Who cares, I read it once and throw them in the recycle bin.
This seems like a trend, for me at least, the internet has changed everything. In the last few years I’ve had my land line house phone discontinued, canceled my newspaper and my cable TV. Ah....progress.
I opened the cover and sure enough. The editorial in the front of the mag said a bunch of stuff about the realities of the publishing business, blah blah blah....
Bottom line is they are now a quarterly and they are trying to push you to their website where I’m sure the advertising pays more and the overhead is less.
So for me, it was a good run, but I won’t renew my subscription. The same for Motorcyclist magazine, fewer issues, less content. They try to sell you on the new look and the heavy stock paper. Who cares, I read it once and throw them in the recycle bin.
This seems like a trend, for me at least, the internet has changed everything. In the last few years I’ve had my land line house phone discontinued, canceled my newspaper and my cable TV. Ah....progress.