i have about 10 magazines in my N7... and mostly untouched. i have read maybe 2 articles in 2 mags. was that a waste of $$?
i am wondering .. why do i even need to pay for magazines?
what will happen to magazine industry in the future??
what does a magazine give me for the price???
newspapers are dieing.. and disappearing. there will be a few.
i guess the magazines will do the same eventually.
We pay for magazines because we like them and we have a fondness for the printed word. Everyone I know gets at least five magazines every month. I once subscribed to more than 30 magazines myself, not including more than a dozen trade and industry magazines. Every publication I took is still going strong despite ad revenue on the decline.
Some people have been saying the end is near for a very long time, but so far, there are plenty of magazines out there. More than 10,000 magazines are published in the United States alone. Many special magazines without general circulation still arrive in our mailboxes.
I can tell you that the pay rates for writers in the (general) online world generally sucks. There are "writers" out there willing to churn out 500 words for a buck or less. Not per word, the entire piece. Legitimate magazines can pay more than a buck a word. As a writer, I am concerned that the public will accept crappy writing and the web will deliver it in spades and overall, rates will go down.
As a writer, I am not sure I am all that concerned as long as a decent pay rate is there. Be it on the web or in the mailbox, if the money is good, so what? I can accept the online world of magazines.
I do not want to see magazines go away, but perhaps one day, they will. Ink and paper costs are up as are postage and delivery costs. With a decline in income and ever increasing costs, something has to give.
Online magazines are nice, but they are not the same as the printed publication. Books have been said to be on the way out for decades but we still publish 300,000 books every year, worldwide. I think there are about 400,000 scholarly journals published every year.
Perhaps I am a romantic, but eBook versions of "The Sun Also Rises" or "The Old Man and the Sea" can never replace first editions (or other editions for that matter). I met a man with a copy of "A Christmas Carol" and a few other books known to be owned by the authors. To book collectors, a copy of a book known to have been owned by the author means more than non-book collectors can fathom.
If you are a reader in love with books, you will understand; if you are a student with Hemingway on your required reading list, perhaps you do not care.
It is said many online newspapers are different than their printed counterparts, so there are differences. I still prefer ink stained fingers to the glare of my iPad screen.
There was a time when we had The Salt Lake Telegram, The Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune. We also had morning and evening editions. But that was before cable TV and the Internet. We will likely never see another large daily published separate morning and evening newspapers. As of today, there are six newspapers published in SLC.
It is perhaps (only to me) interesting that we (Bill Shipler Photo) were "staff" photographers for several daily papers and using film, we could deliver photos to the editor's desk in less than an hour. So the lack of digital cameras meant nothing. that said, the influx of digital technologies dies impact the whole shebang.
: Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, various Nurse trade publications and anything out of the University of Nebraska Athletic Department. And more. 
