Several quilt magazines to stop hard copy publication
08-23-2013, 06:51 AM
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Several quilt magazines to stop hard copy publication
Read this on Facebook today:
Harris Publishing:
"We will be suspending print publication of Quilt magazine, Simple Quilts & Sewing and Quilt Almanac effective with the October/November 2013... With that said, we are looking towards a primarily digital relaunch in Spring 2014 and are committed to the quilt space."
Harris Publishing:
"We will be suspending print publication of Quilt magazine, Simple Quilts & Sewing and Quilt Almanac effective with the October/November 2013... With that said, we are looking towards a primarily digital relaunch in Spring 2014 and are committed to the quilt space."
08-23-2013, 12:59 PM
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the only quilting magazine subscriptions i have are digital.
i love it.
i download the issues to my computer.
i have several years' worth.
they take no physical space for storage.
i can look through them any time i please.
i only print the specific pages i need.
i don't mean to imply that folks who prefer the hard copies are wrong.
just thought i'd share the "up side" to going digital.
i love it.
i download the issues to my computer.
i have several years' worth.
they take no physical space for storage.
i can look through them any time i please.
i only print the specific pages i need.
i don't mean to imply that folks who prefer the hard copies are wrong.
just thought i'd share the "up side" to going digital.
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08-23-2013, 02:47 PM
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Digital is cheap to produce. I doubt the company will lose profit if half the subscribers dropped them. I like digital. Several hundred magazines that take up no room at all, easy to see at a glance what you are looking for, and easy to print. If I'm ever in a lifestyle where no internet is available then I'll have more to worry about then no magazines. LOL
08-23-2013, 03:06 PM
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You should get some notification from the magazines with a choice of being able to get an ebook or digital. I would let them know what you've learned and for all who have subscriptions how are they going to handle the situation. Many are going paperless.
08-23-2013, 07:49 PM
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That maybe great for those with internet but there are still plenty of older quilters which I feel sorry for whom get these magazines that do not own a computer or an ebook or even smart/iphone phones. In fact I have younger friends whom can't even save or send a file to a disk/SD card.
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