diggin4clad
Elite Member
Apparently, Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine isn't doing too well with their digital subscriptions because in my Emails was an offer for a "special" price of $12 annually. I'm still not buying...…..
Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine Offer
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Skippy SH13
Forum Supporter
I don't understand why people pay for digital subscriptions of anything. There's SO much information online. If I wanted to, I could peruse it for months without running into new content (especially with forums).
When I buy a magazine, it's because I want to hold the slick, enjoy the tactile experience, and actually LOOK at some of the ads in it. Online? not so.
It's a weird new world, eh?
Skippy
Waste of money.
Instead just come here and read.
Instead just come here and read.
diggin4clad
Elite Member
I've been on various forums since 2010 but it was still nice to get the magazine in the mail.
maxxkatt
Forum Supporter
Love magazines. Nice to hold and flip through the pages. I remember PC Magazine was like almost 1/2" thick and came out twice a month.
Now they are very anemic in the printed versions if they even exist any more. Very few pages and printed on very thin paper that you sometimes have to have a razor blade to separate the pages from each other when trying to turn pages.
Not at all a pleasant experience like they used to be. Then you go to the store and see the single copy price around $12.95 - $17.95.
I don't blame the publisher, it is that way probably because so many of us get much better info online updated daily about our specific interests. Like this forum for instance. It is way better than any printed magazine on the subject. With one exception. You can not hold it like you could a printed version.
No thanks to the expensive sub-quality rags passing as magazines today.
Now they are very anemic in the printed versions if they even exist any more. Very few pages and printed on very thin paper that you sometimes have to have a razor blade to separate the pages from each other when trying to turn pages.
Not at all a pleasant experience like they used to be. Then you go to the store and see the single copy price around $12.95 - $17.95.
I don't blame the publisher, it is that way probably because so many of us get much better info online updated daily about our specific interests. Like this forum for instance. It is way better than any printed magazine on the subject. With one exception. You can not hold it like you could a printed version.
No thanks to the expensive sub-quality rags passing as magazines today.
coin pirate
Forum Supporter
I don't buy detecting mags, but the mags I do buy are for the old school of touch and feely lol, plus, if I have one for reference, it's easy to pick it up and thumb through again, sometimes I've even bookmarked them, to me easier than sitting at the computer every time I want to look up something I've read, plus I don't use my phone for much more than a "phone" and camera.
FreeBirdTim
Elite Member
Publishers of printed material just don't get it. I am not going to pay for a digital version of anything. ProJo and the Boston Globe try to pull this nonsense. Some newspapers even want me to pay per article! Get a grip. It's a big internet out there. I can get my info for free, so why should I pay for it?
