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."

how sad for everyone.

So much for that two year subscription I bought!

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.

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

Yeah, but you'd think they'd at least give you a break in the price.

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.

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.

That's odd cause I just got a letter asking me to subscribe again. No mention of it being digital only.