Bought a magazine lately?

[gcgang]

Stopped into the Hudson’s to pick up a magazine for my flight.

Economist and Atlantic $10.99! Even People was $7.99. A WSJ newspaper was $5.

I guess I’ve turned into the old man talking about “I remember when x cost y”, in this case a newspaper 25 cents or a magazine a dollar or two.

Didn’t buy em, even tho when I FIRED I resolved to not worry about the price of anything little, especially in an airport.

 

[Koolau]

Stopped into the Hudson’s to pick up a magazine for my flight.

Economist and Atlantic $10.99! Even People was $7.99. A WSJ newspaper was $5.

I guess I’ve turned into the old man talking about “I remember when x cost y”, in this case a newspaper 25 cents or a magazine a dollar or two.

Didn’t buy em, even tho when I FIRED I resolved to not worry about the price of anything little, especially in an airport.

Kiplingers delivered by mail will soon end. They've more interested in ESG scores than anything else now. I'm done.

 

[Exchme]

Was an avid reader of Scientific American through the 80s and 90s, then somewhere in the early 2000s, realized it had more politics than science and I canceled. I don't recall buying so much as a single issue of anything since.

My wife on the other hand will buy anything with BTS (Korean Pop band) on the cover.

 

[Aerides]

Single copies have always been pricey. I did recently resubscribe to Vogue, $15 for a full year. I like the September issue as it's a huge book but just one issue is 8;or 10 bucks so I got the year.

 

[Kings over Queens]

Economist and Atlantic $10.99! Even People was $7.99. A WSJ newspaper was $5.

I noticed this during a recent overnight hotel stay, there was a pile of them in the lobby. Couldn't believe it...five bucks!

 

[Gumby]

We moved several years ago to online subscriptions to the NYT and our local paper (CT Post). We no longer subscribe to any magazines (used to subscribe to The Economist and National Geographic).

 

[COcheesehead]

I buy the local paper, digital version.

 

[steady saver]

I can't bring myself to buy a single copy of any magazine anymore.

 

[Montecfo]

I still get a paper Saturday WSJ, Kiplinger and Forbes.

What is jacked up to me is reading newspapers on a reader or tablet.

A far different and worse experience IMHO.

But due to travelling so much and cheap pricing I finally went digital on Barron's and WSJ (other than weekend). They were so cheap I used the savings to buy a hybrid computer for reading them on.

Not optimal but so far so good.

 

[COcheesehead]

I still get a paper Saturday WSJ, Kiplinger and Forbes.

What is jacked up to me is reading newspapers on a reader or tablet.

A far different and worse experience IMHO.

But due to travelling so much and cheap pricing I finally went digital on Barron's and WSJ (other than weekend). They were so cheap I used the savings to buy a hybrid computer for reading them on.

Not optimal but so far so good.

The digital version on my iPad of my local paper is an exact copy of the print version, ads and all. The pages advance like a print copy. I can enlarge sections as I please. No ink on my fingers. Not sure what’s “jacked” about that.

 

[harley]

I still get paper versions of Family Handyman and Wood, and DW gets Discover and Smithsonian. With the subscriptions they're only a dollar of two apiece. Haven't bought a single issue magazine in so long I can't remember. Oh wait! I bought a fantasy football magazine a few years ago. I doubt I spent more than $5 for it, as I'm pretty cheap.

 

[dmpi]

I use to be a avid car magazine reader in the 80s and 90s. My favorite was Car and Driver. Now I can't read them because they have too many ads in them and they cost like $10 an issue and everything in the issue is also on the web for free.

 

[W2R]

Nope!

Haven't bought a magazine or a newspaper for almost a half century (other than journals needed for work, back when I was working).

But I *DO* remember "the good old days", when popular magazines and newspapers were well written, well edited, easily available, and relatively inexpensive. I didn't have the time or money to buy them then, but dreamed that I might in the future.

Oh well, we don't have flying cars, either. Somehow the future didn't turn out quite like I had thought it would.

 

[swakyaby]

When my local newspaper raised their print prices by double and reduced the size of their paper, I switched to Apple News on my 12.9” ipad. It contains many major newspapers (including my local one) and many popular magazines for $10/month. It’s all the reading I need, outside of library books.

 

[JoeWras]

I was a magazine freak. Loved Scientific American, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Car and Driver and so on.

I jettisoned Scientific American decades ago when it became Politics American. I stuck with Car and Driver and Popular Mechanics. Then two years ago, I realized I was two years behind in reading them. LOL. Popular Mechanics also reduced their size. It is now the size of a Reader's Digest large print edition.

I realized I don't like reading them anymore. They changed. I changed. The world changed. I never thought I'd give up print, but I did. All canceled.

 

[DrRoy]

Not a single, no. I subscribe to the Economist. That's not cheap either.

 

[Midpack]

I used to subscribe to up to four magazines at a time, but that ended at least 25 years ago (along with newspapers). I might have bought single magazines on business trips some after that, but that ended once I could watch movies on my iPad 12 years ago. I used to keep magazines stacked in closets, but rarely reread any, threw them all out many years ago too. OTOH my Dad subscribed to many magazines and newspapers until he passed in 2018 at 96 yo.

 

[frayne]

Subscribe and get hard copies of the Economist and Golf Digest. Haven't bought a single magazine in years. Airports have captive audiences and are notorious for high prices.

 

[mystang52]

I still get a paper Saturday WSJ, Kiplinger and Forbes.

What is jacked up to me is reading newspapers on a reader or tablet.

A far different and worse experience IMHO.

But due to travelling so much and cheap pricing I finally went digital on Barron's and WSJ (other than weekend). They were so cheap I used the savings to buy a hybrid computer for reading them on.

Not optimal but so far so good.

A short while back I started a thread wherein I mentioned I ditched my eReader and went back to real books. Similarly, I can't get into electronic magazines. I currently subscribe to Astronomy, and as a Bridge player I get the ACBL's (national Bridge organization) monthly magazine. I used to subscribe to Runner's World but like another responder here, I found a tilt towards politics and the other articles got to be boring to me. To the OP, I haven't bought a newsstand magazine in eons.

 

[athena53]

My late husband was in business-to-business advertising and he said that the reason subscriptions were always cheaper was that they could sell their mailing lists. I suppose e-mail addresses are even more valuable to the publishers- they can bombard you with messages between issues at almost no cost. My last paper subscription was "Birds and Blooms"- most of the content was photos from readers and they were sending me weekly e-mails with tiny amounts of info and a lot of ads.

I VERY occasionally buy a magazine or a newspaper when I'm traveling and I'm more likely to if it's in French or German since i can't get those at home.

 

[Montecfo]

A short while back I started a thread wherein I mentioned I ditched my eReader and went back to real books. Similarly, I can't get into electronic magazines. I currently subscribe to Astronomy, and as a Bridge player I get the ACBL's (national Bridge organization) monthly magazine. I used to subscribe to Runner's World but like another responder here, I found a tilt towards politics and the other articles got to be boring to me. To the OP, I haven't bought a newsstand magazine in eons.

I think if e-readers had been invented first, paperback books might have been the exciting new "tech"

Think of it!
-no charging
-can use on airplanes during takeoff and landing
-take to beach with no worries
-renewable
-sustainable
-no fossil fuels
-lighter than a tablet
-satisfying tactile feel
-no theft risk

 

[dmpi]

I should also mention that in my experience it was impossible to cancel a magazine subscription by phone or letter. All we could do is just quit paying them, then we would get this nasty note to pay up. Heaven forbid if they have your credit card number and you're on 'auto-renewal'.

 

[GenXguy]

People still read magazines? lol I haven't paid for a magazine online or hard copy in over 20 years. There's just too much free content out there and not enough time. I used to get free magazines at work and occasionally free ones delivered to home, but I usually didn't get around to looking them over.

 

[pacergal]

Yes, they are expensive!
The only time DH or I buy a book or magazine is on vacation, so I can just leave it or recycle when done. It is almost to the point of being a line item expense in our vacation budget

 

[rk911]

Over the years we've cut way back on the number of magazines coming into the house. My wife gets Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. I get QST (Amateur Radio), Air & Space Quarterly and, possibly the best magazine ever, True West. .