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European Car magazine - NLA, another one bites the dust |
IronHillRestorations |
Feb 22 2018, 08:57 AM
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I. I. R. C. Group: Members Posts: 6,720 Joined: 18-March 03 From: West TN Member No.: 439 Region Association: None |
I just found out that European Car magazine is kaput.
Back in Nov. a friend gave me a subscription, and I had forgot about it. My wife was cleaning out a drawer and found the postcard from EC saying my friend gave me a years subscription, but I haven't seen a single issue. I got on the publisher's website and went through the "contact us" link, and got a message that EC was no longer being published. |
GregAmy |
Feb 25 2018, 10:19 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,307 Joined: 22-February 13 From: Middletown CT Member No.: 15,565 Region Association: North East States |
Content is decisively moving electronic, but I think a lot of that is becoming self-inflicted. Wired magazine, for example, is one i've subscirbed to since nearly its inception. I really like the content, and enjoy having paper to handle in certain scenario.
However, they have inexorably increased their online presence, but in a lot of ways at the expense of the hardcopy. My Wired physical magazine is shrinking, seemingly each month, with references to additional content online. And I just got an email notification that I have a free subscription online, encouraging me to move there for content. It's inevitable that the hardcopy will go away, at which point I will cancel my subscription. Grassroots Motorsports, on the other hand, is still going strong, with excellent hardcopy content and referrals to online links for more details. I think their magazine is actually growing, not shrinking. Each time I see a deal on subscriptions I'll bite; I think I'm somewhere in the range of 2023 for expiration. European Car died not because of online competition, it died because its content was becoming dry, boring, redundant, and irrelevant. See Car & Driver , Motor Trend, and AutoWeek since most of the good guys got fired/left. Yawn. Yeah, online content is the king, but there's really nothing like a well-run hardcopy magazine with top-notch content. But that's just me. Apparently I'm an outlier. |
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