Time to fess up – when did you last invest in print media and buy a newspaper or magazine? What does the future hold as we become a society of news-hungry scrollers…and should we care?
Yeh, I saw that. Still don’t think I’d be that worried about buying it. Eeeeeek. Maybe I’ve just got to the point where I should shut up about it all :-/ Ha. But there’s no doubt print is dying slowly. I might do an experiment and buy five magazines for my flight next week and report back.
I’ve just found your Substack & have been reading backwards. We have a digital subscription to The Times but buy the print Times, Telegraph and FT every weekend. I used to buy lots of glossy magazines, esp Vogue, but I hardly ever bought it when it was under Enninful as it didn’t seem to speak to me, an older white middle class woman with an ordinary job. TBH I would only buy his Vogue when it was £2. I still love a glossy but have discovered I can read lots more of them, fashion, home, gardening, fitness, via PressReader and Libby with free access via the library. I do feel bad because it’s ‘use them or lose them’ and it’s not quite the same experience on an iPad, much more of a tragedy when it falls in the bath!
Grazia, for the beach. Until last year, I subscribed to seven (yes, seven) interior magazines but have dropped to just one (AD) now. Mostly because they’re expensive but also because much of what’s in them became aspirational rather than inspirational, non affordable for most (v much like your £10k watch situ) which doesn’t really suit todays climate. Every now and then I’ll grab one at the station as a treat, but there’s so much online now at the tap of a screen that they’ve become sadly surplus to requirements, especially financially. I’d rather pay £5 or whatevs a month to subscribe to a writer I like on here, thus picking out the good bits of the magazines I loved and not paying the extra for the stuff I flicked past, whilst also getting a writers archive back posts for the same sum.
Totally hear you! It’s just a new age isn’t it? And how we absorb our news. Sad though - used to get so pumped about a new magazine. Anyway, onwards! X
I used to be a magazine subscription gal and my dad works in print. But I’ve not picked up a magazine since Grazia last September because it had Sienna on the cover and featured an interview about her new range with M&S. I know a few friends picked up the copy too because… Sienna… our inner 00s teen selves were feeling nostalgic. It feels like a magazine has to be tied to a cultural moment to be worth picking up now.
If I was in the US I would have bought US Weekly for this https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mary-kate-and-ashley-olsens-secret-life-what-staff-thinks-love-lives/ - proper long read with reliable sourcing on a topic that really works for an audience that has grown up with them. Interesting to note that one of the writers has a (very good) Substack! Back Row
Yeh, I saw that. Still don’t think I’d be that worried about buying it. Eeeeeek. Maybe I’ve just got to the point where I should shut up about it all :-/ Ha. But there’s no doubt print is dying slowly. I might do an experiment and buy five magazines for my flight next week and report back.
I’ve just found your Substack & have been reading backwards. We have a digital subscription to The Times but buy the print Times, Telegraph and FT every weekend. I used to buy lots of glossy magazines, esp Vogue, but I hardly ever bought it when it was under Enninful as it didn’t seem to speak to me, an older white middle class woman with an ordinary job. TBH I would only buy his Vogue when it was £2. I still love a glossy but have discovered I can read lots more of them, fashion, home, gardening, fitness, via PressReader and Libby with free access via the library. I do feel bad because it’s ‘use them or lose them’ and it’s not quite the same experience on an iPad, much more of a tragedy when it falls in the bath!
Thanks for reading! Great to hear your views. Interesting on Vogue. Happy reading!
Grazia, for the beach. Until last year, I subscribed to seven (yes, seven) interior magazines but have dropped to just one (AD) now. Mostly because they’re expensive but also because much of what’s in them became aspirational rather than inspirational, non affordable for most (v much like your £10k watch situ) which doesn’t really suit todays climate. Every now and then I’ll grab one at the station as a treat, but there’s so much online now at the tap of a screen that they’ve become sadly surplus to requirements, especially financially. I’d rather pay £5 or whatevs a month to subscribe to a writer I like on here, thus picking out the good bits of the magazines I loved and not paying the extra for the stuff I flicked past, whilst also getting a writers archive back posts for the same sum.
Totally hear you! It’s just a new age isn’t it? And how we absorb our news. Sad though - used to get so pumped about a new magazine. Anyway, onwards! X
I used to be a magazine subscription gal and my dad works in print. But I’ve not picked up a magazine since Grazia last September because it had Sienna on the cover and featured an interview about her new range with M&S. I know a few friends picked up the copy too because… Sienna… our inner 00s teen selves were feeling nostalgic. It feels like a magazine has to be tied to a cultural moment to be worth picking up now.