Poll: Do you still buy Magazines?

[Deleted member 77746]

I stopped buying them once the world went digital.

Don’t buy them digital either. I personally think there’s more content doing basic browsing than you ever would in a magazine or newspaper.

If someone has one lay about I would still read it though.

 

[gingergundog]

PC Zone had some quality staff at its peak - I used to hang out on IRC with a bunch of them back in I guess the late 90s - so long I've forgotten now.

These days far too often people do stuff like that either purely as a career or when it is a passion it is more a kind of by the numbers thing for want of a better way to explain it rather than a deep creative passion.

It was good fun and didn't take itself too seriously with honest down to earth reviews. I can imagine that IRC was a good laugh.

 

[aVdub]

Almost bought one of the mountain bike mags on the way to North Wales last year, but see the price before doing so, which was closer to £10 than the £4.99 I'd paid last time I bought it

I find everything I want online now and cannot see me buying one again.

 

[robgmun]

So basically the internet killed the Magazine about 2005-2010, sounds about right

 

[kieran_read]

I subscribe to:

Economist (for about 25yrs)
Edge (for about 10yrs)
BBC history magazine (~2yrs)

My kids also have subs to aquila, and national geographic

Occasionally I will subscribe to pc pro for a few months when there is a good deal.

I am very nostalgic for the magazine boom years in the 90s. I used to love amiga format/amiga power, then edge and various pc mags. As a teenager in the mid-90s I also used to enjoy the lad mags like loaded and fhm. Times have changed, world's sexiest woman awards would not be allowed now!

Although Internet has destroyed magazines, I don't think the quality of writing is as good, and I think it is certainly getting worse. Sites like eurogamer and rps used to be more quirky and weird, but these days what they put out is incredibly dull.

Oh I know the Aquila magazine very colourful easy to spot haha