I had to cut out buying music mags because I was unemployed and couldn't afford them but since I'm working again I deceided to pick up Uncut and discovered I still can't afford them! It was £4.20 (roughly $8). OK, it's usually well written and you get a CD with it but that still seems very expensive for a magazine

At one time I used to buy 7 or 8 magazines a month but to do that now the cost would be enormous. It's getting to the stage music magazines are more expensive that the CD's they review! Now I only buy Lost In Music, the local Glasgow indie scene mag.

With things like Pitchfork and the internet in general I can't see much future for printed magazines, except of course for local mags. In the UK we have already seen the demise of the music paper (Sounds, Melody Maker) and magazines like Select and it can't be long before the rest follow them.

Any opinions?

Publishing companies are going to have to take a hard look at prices, that for sure. I'm certainly not going to pay newstand price for any of them.

I think subscription mags will always have a place, but not so sure about over-the-counter ones, except local and regional ones. They're just too expensive now.

Until you can comfortably read the internet while on the toilet, yes.

Is this the place where I mention CMJ New Music Monthly?

Wasn't it once a magazine?

I use to love Select. I've soured on Uncut, Rolling Stone, & Spin

I like Magnet, CMJ (when and if), Flaunt, and suprizingly enough, Entertainment Weekly.

i have EW beacuse we got it free from media play. they've recently looked back at bands of the 1990s and did a thing about the 25 biggest moments in hip-hop, neither of which were stupid, so congrats to them.

bort
np: modest mouse

i'm not wooried if print magazines will survive because they just will. this is a point when we see an intensified survival of the fittest -- newspapers anybody? -- and magazine will be pared down due to their worth. people seem to find worth in, well, people (magazine), in wallpaper*, in even former zines like stop smiling. i think these magazine have a huge emphasis on the visual element, that there's worth in dropping $3 on pretty pictures and the cred of having it on your end table. music magazines have had to intensify their products -- because of their content, they're product isn't visual elements but a music experience. you can read a killer interview online just as much as you can in print. so magazines need to focus (and do focus) on valuable interactive elements -- cds, web cooperation, extended interviews (that you'd never bother reading online), heavy visual content. sensual credibility (i think this will be my hip-hop nom de plum).

so in short, magazines aren't dead but they are evolving. just as i think that radio won't die -- it just has some heavy competition and its market share will decrease. and just like some people demand a tanglible element to their music ownership (i.e. digital v. cds, vinyl, etc.), people will demand a tangible element to their portable media until portabilty is no longer required or demanded.

The magazine publishing world is certanily not on the incline....

I know our company was hit with massive paper cost increases this year, with another batch forthcoming....So, we had to cut back in many area's..

Also, alot of labels are not looking towards print advertising as their first advertising objective....

I dont think it will ever dissapear, but it is not a growing industry anymore......

paper is so last century. online magz will be the future.

reading stuff on the toilet? eventually some pda or cellphone or other mobile device will work fine. or maybe all inner toilet doors will come with a thin computer monitor. hey, espnzone has mini-color-tvs in front of their urinals.

What he said. From what I noticed at our publishing company, circulation has been going down- digital has been going up. A lot of our advertisers aren't finding value in the print dollar, but have been gearing more towards the digital dollar. BUT it will still survive, just like what Katie said- newspapers are still around and people still read them.

I don't bother with too many digital e-zines... I'm just too lazy... I like being able to read magazines and have the actual copy to look at. And I read Filter, Under the Radar, XLR8R, & a few others. I just wish Mojo wasn't so damn expensive!

i've noticed that subscribtion rates have dropped while newstand prices have risen, it's just a new way of marketing.

they rather have more proven readers so they can raise ad rates.

a year of spin cost the same as two newstand issues
a year of Rolling Stone is aobut four.