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

[I Should Coco]

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?

 

[Norrin Radd]

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.

 

[I Should Coco]

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!

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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

 

[micropolitan guy]

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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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

 

[CD Boogie]

Age 39

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

 

[Walter Burns]

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

 

[Versatile]

Sports Illustrated
ESPN The Magazine
The New York Times on Sundays

 

[Steak Snabler]

Age 39.

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

 

[Huggy]

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.

 

[Small Town Guy]

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.

 

[apeman33]

Age 45

None now. Used to get Sports Illustrated, ESPN the mag, Time and Newsweek. Eventually dropped all of them because it seemed like I didn't have the time to read/look at them anymore. Roomie dropped her two mags for pretty mucht the same reason: No time to read them.

 

[crimsonace]

Age 37

Only magazine I get in dead tree edition is National Review, although I'm likely going to end up getting that through my Kindle now that I have one.

Used to subscribe to SI, but ran out of time to read it and ran out of money to pay for it . I read all of the local papers online -- using my employer's subscription to get around the local metro's paywall (we also used to get the hard copies through NIE, which as the local school's journalism teacher, I would hoard), and my wife's complimentary subscription to the local daily.

 

[Riptide]

I canceled ESPN The Mag in January. But they still insist on sending it to me.

It goes right into the trash. But they keep their circ numbers propped up, I guess.

 

[LanceyHoward]

SI
ESPN the Magazine (with my insider subscription)
The New YORKER
Atlantic
Business Week
Forbes
Fortune
The New Yorker
Esquire
Vanity Fair
GQ
Wired
The Economist

A lot of these subscriptions are driven by by rationale that if I can get something for a buck an issue I will subscribe.

And the two that I would recommend as good values are the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. The New Yorker is about $40 a year they still can print really good articles. And Vanity Fair is a buck an issue and can have an outsanding articles. Michael Lewis alone makes Vanity Fair worth the investment.

 

[imjustagirl]

36

Us Weekly
Readers Digest
Texas Monthly

 

[maberger]

turn 52 in a month. these obviously pile up.

SI
The Atlantic
Harpers
The New Yorker
The Sun
GQ
Esquire
Cooking Light
Bon Appetit
Sunset
Clean Eating
Cooks Illustrated

i'll buy LA Magazine, and I get the Sunday LAT as part of my online subscription

 

[Songbird]

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?

None. I read everything for free online.

I'll buy the NYT or WaPo if I take the train into NYC, but otherwise it's all online.

 

[Dyno]

44

SI
ESPN the Magazine
GQ
Esquire
Marie Claire
Entertainment Weekly
InStyle
Real Simple
Conde Nast Traveler
Washingtonian
Vanity Fair
Health
Lucky
Sunday Washington Post
Plus, I get three alumni magazines and the quarterly AAA magazine (it has surprisingly good travel info)