That was a good article. Now I feel like I should write my comment with an accent. But then, maybe I am.
I've been a subscriber to S&T since 1969, but when my subscription was up last year I hesitated before renewing. The way things are going, I may not get another chance to renew. Magazines are dying. The spike in energy prices may finally kill off many of them. Information is moving to the Internet, where it is plentiful and largely free. I'm on Cloudy Nights and Astromart every day, but my S&T often sits unread the entire month.
The suggestions for saving the magazines are pretty good, but probably insufficient. When you subtract all the things the magazines used to provide exclusively but are now available on the net - ads (more than half the page count of any magazine), reviews, pictures, news - there isn't enough left to keep a magazine alive.
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