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

I agree with that completely. I can't go directly from reading a computer screen to going to bed, and in fact I've read that you should stop looking at a computer screen at least an hour prior to going to sleep. Something about the screen brightness and the eye's need to re-acclimate to less visual stimulation.

 

I do all my reading on the iPad these days.
You could say I'm hooked. Surf, surf, surf.

 

Age 38

The New Yorker
Sports Illustrated
Esquire
Sunday New York Times (rest of the week on the iPad)
Indianapolis Star (Thusday-Sunday print; rest of week digital)
Wired
Backpacker

Admittedly, I do read the iPad versions. But I will say I subscribe to a couple more magazines now BECAUSE of the iPad, because I always have them with me.

 

As BASW editor I get comp. subscriptions to dozens and dozens of magazines and subscribe to more than a few. Each year I send out a letter to hundreds of publications asking for submissions of individual stories and/or comp subscriptions. The biggest difficulty is finding an actual editorial address - snail mail or email - to contact, whether on a website, in the publication itself (if it is one I have in hand), online or in a published directory. This most basic information is often nearly impossible to find or hopelessly out of date; probably 1 in 5 comes back as undeliverable. It is as if they do not want to be found.

 

I'm probably naive to think this, but I feel like high-quality printed magazines will continue to do fine. Despite major advances in iPad editions, I think paper magazine still look better. They feel better. I don't have to worry about Internet connections or battery life. I can leave them on a table or a nightstand without worrying that the kids will destroy them, and I can throw them in my bag to read on the plane to get a break from screen time. And for advertisers... I actually look at ads in a magazine. I've trained myself that I don't even see online ads. There are four on this page, but if you'd asked me what they were advertising, I'd have no idea.

I can totally see why newspapers are inefficient delivery systems, but magazines still work, I think.

Of course, I'm also biased.

 

I agree. I use ad blockers online and stopped my daily subscription to my own newspaper because of the massive amount of recycling it caused. Yes, that was my primary reason. There's too much damn paper in newspapers. I'm not an environmentalist at all, but it's annoying to deal with. The backseat of my car (mad lib all you want here) was always covered in newspapers to the point at which there was no room for legs, forcing me to make amputee friends.

 

This is absolutely true for me. I never look at the ads when I'm reading a magazine on my iPad, but I pretty much always do in the regular magazine.

Also, I left a few off my list: Bazaar, Budget Travel and Consumer Reports. Plus one of my friends subscribes to Allure, More and Shape and she usually passes them along to me when she's done.

 

I'm 28, and I don't intentionally pay for any magazines. By that, I mean that I have subscriptions to ESPN Insider and Gamestop's customer service program thing, and as a result I get sent ESPN The Magazine and Game Informer. Otherwise though, I haven't had a magazine since I cancelled Time in my early 20s. (Got to be pretty pricey.)

 

I print out all my porn pictures...so I can kill a tree WHILE I kill a kitten.

 

Couldn't find a thread on Newsweek, so I'll post this here:

After shelving the print version of the mag back in December 2012, they're bringing Newsweek back to the magazine racks:

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/the-skinny-on-newsweeks-print-revival/

Apparently People, Sports Illustrated and Field & Stream isn't enough to amuse people stuck in doctor and dentist office waiting areas.

 

To answer the original post, the only magazines we subscribe to are the glorified newsletters that come with joining various museums, zoos, etc. and Highlights for Children that our kids get. We stopped subscribing to my newspaper when it became painfully obvious there weren't enough coupons to justify the lack of employee discount

 

43, she's 40
Local metro
My paper, I bring home copies from the office
Her hometown weekly
New Yorker (on the Kindle, which I hardly ever read since it isn't in the stack)
Smithsonian
Lucky Peach ( I buy at the Barnes and Noble with Christmas giftcards)
Texas Monthly
Time
Garden & Gun
Southern Living
Fraternity magazine
Sorority magazine
Alumni magazines
Some art thing I'm not familiar with. I think it was one she worked at.
Used to subscribe to the New York Times daily, ESPN and Esquire but let them lapse. Timely delivery was an issue for the magazines. It was completely unclear why never could get the delivery straight. And the Times was so random when it would actually appear on the doorstep, I gave up.