Keeping the 1970s, er, the publishing industry alive!

As Mrs. Coco and I renewed yet another magazine subscription this week (The Nation ... yeah, I know :), I was wondering how many of the journos/ex-journos on this site actually pay for a printed product?

I'll run down our household list ... my guess is, for two people who are 40, the Mrs. and I subscribe to more magazines than most folks our age:

-- The Nation (have subscribed to this since the late 1990s)
-- All You (one of her mags, ordered it through a school fundraiser)
-- Alaska magazine
-- Rolling Stone (gift subscription a couple years ago, then renewed it myself. It's improved a lot since I last subscribed in the late 1990s)
-- Mother Jones (just started this one, a good read and only $10/year)

We also get the local daily newspaper freebee because I work there, and get the Idaho Catholic Register newspaper twice a month through our church.

That's a lot of recycling material.

Anyone else?

 

I pick up the Sports Illustrated season previews. I also grab the ESPN the Magazine ones when I can find them (had to get Cody Zeller cover off eBay).

Other than that, I figure any interesting story will end up on Twitter or linked here, or reported elsewhere.

 

Here's the Slate article that prompted this thread: Apparently, Google now generates more ad revenue than all other U.S. print media combined:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/12/google_ad_revenue_tops_entire_us_print_media_industry_chart.html

But the publications still have Google beat on subscription revenue!

 

I have a subscription to Philadelphia magazine because the rates are so low ($7.99/year).

 

SI
Smithsonian (annual gift from my parents)
South Dakota magazine

Used to get Time but we let that lapse about five years ago. I used to get Rolling Stone and Playboy but dropped both about 20 years ago.

 

Age 36 (both wife and I):

* Local Metro
* Local suburban rag
* New York Times
* Time
* Rolling Stone
* The New Yorker
* The Atlantic
* Mother Jones (just started)
* The New Republic (just started)
* ESPN: The Magazine (started for Insider stuff, but realized how much good writing it contains)
* Parents
* Real Simple
* Parenting
* Nearby big city's regional magazine (may have let that lapse, though)
* GQ
* Esquire
* Sports Illustrated

 

Age 39

SI
New York magazine
New Yorker
ESPN the Magazine (comes with Insider account)
no newspapers

 

I'm 35. Mrs. Burns is 36.
People
Esquire
Sports Illustrated

 

Sports Illustrated
ESPN The Magazine
The New York Times on Sundays

 

Age 39.

Like some others, I get ESPN the Magazine with my Insider subscription. That's all.

 

47

SI
Rolling Stone (been a subscriber since 1978)
Playboy (since 1980)
Economist

We get the Toronto Sun daily but I do little more than glance at the sports section.

 

37.

Sports Illustrated
Esquire
Vanity Fair
Atlantic Monthly
ESPN the Mag
Minnesota Monthly
Entertainment Weekly
In Style (not sure how we got it, wife doesn't want it, it's impossible to stop the subscription)
Money (see above, but put "I" for wife and "don't" instead of doesn't)
New Yorker
NY Magazine
Atlantic Monthly
Writer's Digest
RT Book Reviews
Poets & Writers
Rolling Stone
Buy the NY Daily News and Times probably 5 days a week.

They do sometimes pile up.