Poll | 04/21/2009 1:00 am

How many magazine subscriptions do you have?

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None right now.

Read everything online and very occasionally buy something at the newstand. I used to take Architectural Digest, Interior Design, HG, Paris Match, French Elle, Cote Sud, W, Vogue, Wine Spectator. And at various times Tennis, Golf, The Economist, Business Week, Forbes, Sailing, Spa, Money, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fortune. Inc.

If I were to take a subscription right now it would be Coastal Living. And if there were something very informative about people with home Internet businesses. In the WSJ today was an article about people who do what I do that found interesting. "America’s Newest Profession"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124026415808636575.html

By SuzannedeCornelia3 on 04/21/2009 1:26 am

I agree Suzanne—read most online and buy one, mainly BBC Music Magazine—tho I do have a subscription to Gramophone.

By fp1 on 04/21/2009 5:41 am

FP, Used to like good old Rolling Stone, too.

By SuzannedeCornelia3 on 04/21/2009 12:59 pm

Like you, I read many many magazines a month, then came kids, mortgages, career changes and life. And like you, I am attempting to make a living through my blog and an online business. I read all my news online and on occasion pick up a magazines. I subscribe to one: O magazine. I am on a contract right now limiting the amount of time spent blogging but I love it.

http://adoesversion.blogspot.com/

By LaurieDeer on 04/21/2009 6:18 am

I like your blog, Laurie. I’ve bookmarked it, so I’ll visit it again … and am looking forward to it!

By rockyrocky on 04/21/2009 10:23 am

Thanks

By LaurieDeer on 04/21/2009 12:59 pm

Interesting article, though a little scary,

"The United Kingdom has just had a major scandal in which an official at 10 Downing Street had planned to leak to a friendly blogger all sorts of lurid stories about the Conservatives, complete with descriptions of secret sex tapes. But all of it was to be made up, and the friendly blogger who was going to post it all thought it was an "absolutely brilliant" idea. Someone blew the whistle, but had the plot gone through, this blogstorm could have played a major role in the upcoming election."

It seems we’ve been moving in this direction for a while, I wonder where it all ends.

By RitaGoldivas on 04/21/2009 2:45 pm

Oh my! I now read many of my favorite magazine subscriptions online … or, their web newsletter update versions. Among them are THE NEW YORKER, TIME, BUSINESS WEEK, and many others. I’m down to three [3] monthly magazine subscriptions I receive by mail, from a high of twelve!!

Um… Should I feel guilty? After all, isn’t everyone reading their periodicals online these days?

By MaizieJames on 04/21/2009 2:22 am

I’m a magazine junkie. I currently take seven, and drag a lot home from the hospital too. I prefer to sit in my easy chair and read a magazine as opposed to sitting here in my not too comfortable chair and stare at my monitor, reading a magazine…or newspaper. Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but like it that way.

By IMLIZZIE on 04/21/2009 4:04 am

I find magazines are 3/4 advertisements and 1/4 any real content. Never was a buyer- waste of money and paper.

By DeeT on 04/21/2009 5:52 am

A lot of magazines are very bad for that! I subscribed to one home decorating magazine a few years ago like that. I’m not sure there was even 1/4 real content. Needless to say, I did not renew.

By DeenaB on 04/21/2009 8:34 am

Absolutely agree Dee — I subscribed to Oprah’s magazine at one time and could barely find the articles hidden away as they were in advertisements.

By AndyC on 04/21/2009 8:51 am

Absolutely agree, Dee T. Total waste of trees (paper) and effort (money). More than enough to read on the Web … Now (really) all we have to do is make sure the Internet providers don’t rob us blind, the Internet magazines don’t start charging us, and the Government doesn’t use the Internet to monitor us or threaten us with shut down! For that last one, see: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cybersecurity_Act_seeks_broad_powers_0413.html

By rockyrocky on 04/21/2009 10:29 am

I travel a lot. You can’t read online magazines while in the air, especially at the beginning and end of the flight when all electronics must be turned off (why the Kindle doesn’t work for me, either). Just came back from a beach vacation. Again, how do you read that monitor on the beach? I went through four books (two on history, two lighter fiction — but not romance novels) and a stack of magazines in a week at the beach. Nothing like curling up with some reading material. I fluctuate between news (Newsweek, Time, The Economist), business (Business Week, Fast Start, Fortune) lighter fare (Marie Claire, Vogue, Bon Appetit, Cook’s Magazine) At least I am well rounded!

By Barbara1 on 04/21/2009 7:42 am

I agree Barbara, magazines and books are a necessity for me on airplanes. I need to have at least two mags and a fresh book (along with a bottle of water!) before I board or I worry that I might run out of reading material or not have anything to drink if/when we are delayed. Definitely need reading material at the beach - and add the pool, in bed right before I go to sleep and the three/four nights a week I relax in my tub with a magazine!

One of the ladies in my book club was testing a Kindle last month and while she liked it okay she said it just doesn’t compare with the feel and smell of holding an old book in her hands…

By LisaB5 on 04/21/2009 1:52 pm