I'm old enough to still enjoy sitting and reading a magazine at my leisure. To be honest, sitting in front of a computer screen is largely boring and, with my chronic back problem, a pain. My biggest complaint, when I subscribed to these so called "niche" publications was that, more often than not, I found them on the news stands before they reached my mailbox. Now I submit that this is both a bad business practice and bad manners on the publishers part. Subscribers should get preference over shoppers. Why should I continue to advance subscription monies to the publishers to help them keep their heads above water when I can walk into a Barnes & Noble like any other non-subscriber, peruse the magazine, and chose to buy it or not based on the articles inside? That is what I am doing now with a number of Astronomy, Birding and Fly Fishing Magazines.
I agree with Hubert. Too often these magazines serve up thin gruel. I'm saving money too.
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