03-12-2021, 03:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2021, 03:59 PM by Mountain Man.)
This is the trend of the future. One of the N scale-specific magazines I used to subscribe to went digital - leaving half of my subscription un-refunded - but never showed up on the 'net.
I have seen several editorials describing the amount of work and the cost of putting out these magazines, and they are indeed costly. For one thing, all of the high quality color images require a more expensive paper stock just for the printing, and with the virtual extinction of brick-and-mortar suppliers, advertising revenue has dried up considerably.
Enjoy them while you can - they won't be around much longer.
Personally, I love print on paper and prefer it anything else, if only for the sheer enjoyment of browsing through it without the need for any device or power source, and the images are a constant hard-copy reference.
I have seen several editorials describing the amount of work and the cost of putting out these magazines, and they are indeed costly. For one thing, all of the high quality color images require a more expensive paper stock just for the printing, and with the virtual extinction of brick-and-mortar suppliers, advertising revenue has dried up considerably.
Enjoy them while you can - they won't be around much longer.
Personally, I love print on paper and prefer it anything else, if only for the sheer enjoyment of browsing through it without the need for any device or power source, and the images are a constant hard-copy reference.