Unhappy Thread

[Bealman]

You got off lightly me old son. I had 14 polyps removed!

[Graham]

@Trainfish , glad all went well, I remember my brother telling me he was only on la-la gas, which I must admit I am glad over here you get the full monty anesthetic, I didn't remember a thing. 

[Bealman]

Just had a wander through the shopping centre on the way to the meat raffle at the bowlo (yes, from the bus stop). Called in at the newsagents, and I guess I'm lucky in that they always have an excellent selection of both model railway and railway mags.

There was a great range today, and a lot of N gauge stuff. Indeed, the American Model Railroader was devoted to N this month.

However, the average price of these things now being around the A$20 mark or higher, means no. I am simply not prepared to fork out that for a magazine. I've even stopped getting the Aussie Silicon Chip magazine on a monthly basis, and it's only 11 bucks!

[Graham]

agree, I only get Model Rail now, and that is digital.
Our local probus club gets given the out of date magazines from a local newsagent. Funnily enough anything rail related ends up in my hands, and then gets deposited at the club. May be out of date for news but the articles are what we (used to) buy them for anyway.

[Bealman]

Good one. I occasionally get the odd handout from another newsagent nearby, but not often.

As you say, most of the mag is advertising anyway.

[Newportnobby]

Railway Modeller has hit £5.95 per issue now. I do buy it even though sometimes there's naff all N gauge in it, but I then pass it onto mate Rob and he passes it on from there.
I certainly don't buy it for the modelling news as they're obviously behind the curve with that

[Bealman]

I'm not sure about that, but I've been a monthly stalwart of both RM and SC over the years. I'm just not prepared to pay that price anymore.

[Jon898]

I suspect we're seeing the print magazine world circling the proverbial drain.

Prices are increasing to the point where the perceived value is no longer there. One of the reactions is to reduce the number of issues per year, the other is just go digital-only.  And of course the price does not go down.

In the last couple of years, I've had two magazine subscriptions changed unilaterally to digital-only (where's my refund?), and seen two well established magazines changed from monthly to bimonthly in one case, and quarterly in the other.

If my remaining monthly subscription goes digital or less than monthly, I'm going to be seriously lacking in throne-reading  !

[paulbeckwith]

hi  all

  i  subscribe  to  " readly  mags "     has  thousands  of  mags   ok   all  online  but  at  least  10 to  15    rail and  model  rail  mags      £14.99   monthley   

  paul