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Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by fauxreb »

As someone whose main career is in editorial and commercial photography, I ask this all the time.

Many of my clients advertise in glossy magazines and many of the stories I shoot go into limited-run luxury fashion magazines that sell in bookshops for >€30.

Though the industry has been changing for a long time, I knew things were different and that the cynicism had become unsustainable when very few people actually read / bought / subscribed to the magazines for which we worked. Few people believed in the product enough to support its ideal form.

Also, 600px-wide jpegs in an endless flow destroyed photography, but whatever.

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by xupybd »

moomoo11 wrote: post #32
coverclock wrote: post #9

Yes, lots of them. I hate reading on the screen, enough that I own a color laser printer more or less just to print articles that I want to read that are online. But for the most part, I find articles in print magazines to be far superior over what is online: better moderated, more interesting, better written, etc. This probably isn't a complete list, but I pay for: THE NEW YORKER, BUSINESS WEEK, THE ATLANTIC, TIME,…

Wow. I have not owned a printer since 2012 and I think I’m gonna go buy one next weekend. I too hate reading on the computer.

Have you tried e-ink? I have an old kindle for reading. It's fantastic.

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by thinkingemote »

Yes, just one monthly because the website is subscription based and the digital only price wasn't much different. Originally it was a print magazine. It takes about 3 weeks for me to read it, I like this pace and the magazine's sit on my coffee table.

I was tempted by another which was behind a paywall recently. Maybe the Economist.

I've a couple of quarterly magazines too, these are literary or niche publications which have been going from well before the internet.

In the past I subscribed to New Scientist but it doesn't interest me now.

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by wink »

My last (and only long-lasting) subscription was the German c't magazine and I'm not sure when I cancelled it, probably more than 10 years ago.

I kinda miss computer games magazines of the 90s, because they were... nice, in a way that has been lost. The print magazines now have many drawbacks versus online publications but the online publications are also not like the magazines.

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by TheKnack »

Yes, only one and it’s because it doesn’t “work” electronically. I re-subscribed to Games World of Puzzles a couple of years ago. It’s a high quality print magazine of clever puzzles that require writing the answers in the magazine. It has everything from many variations of crossword type puzzles to completely new genres they seem to invent every month. I was introduced to it my my elementary school gifted and talented teacher in the early 80’s. Back then I couldn’t wait for it to come in the mail, but stopped subscribing for about 30 years until a few months into the pandemic.

It’s not like the puzzle “magazines” that are in the magazine section of most stores now, it’s way more than that. It used to occasionally show up at my local Barnes and Noble, but I haven’t seen it there for a while.

https://gamesmagazine-online.com/

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by wannabebarista »

fauxreb wrote: post #40
wannabebarista wrote: post #26

I enjoy reading the physical magazine without having to be at my desk or the distraction that comes along with staring at a screen. Reading physical media is also a nice break/escape from reading academic papers and other stuff online. My print subscriptions: Foreign Affairs, New Yorker, New York Review of Books.

Yep, it's physical for me. The calm and linear quality of a printed magazine. Sub to: - Economist - New Yorker - Foreign Affairs - New York Review of Books - London Review of Books Love them all, deeply. And then use the reviews as firestarters.

You reminded me that I left the Economist off my list! We were recently subscribed to LRB but accidently let it lapse. You have good tastes, indeed!

Re: Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Post by Fatnino »

blueridge wrote: post #13
coverclock wrote: post #9

Yes, lots of them. I hate reading on the screen, enough that I own a color laser printer more or less just to print articles that I want to read that are online. But for the most part, I find articles in print magazines to be far superior over what is online: better moderated, more interesting, better written, etc. This probably isn't a complete list, but I pay for: THE NEW YORKER, BUSINESS WEEK, THE ATLANTIC, TIME,…

Yes! Because I too hate reading on screen, and like coverlcock, also purchased a printer just to print out the essays that seem interesting at a glance. Also, if anyone wants to build a social network that allows trusted friends to send articles (images removed, reader versions with good typography) directly to your printer, let me know. I'd love to work on this with someone. https://www.thenewatlantis.com (highly re…

Did you just try to reinvent the fax machine?
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