I occasionally pick up a paper copy of MMM but I would be unlikely to read it online. Surely good quality video content is the way forward?
Magazines in the Internet Age
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Jim
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Excellent quality video is very hard to do. Poor quality video is very hard to watch.
Mark McG
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The you tube channel that they put out was dreadful
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I agree. However I suspect that we will see a new generation of content providers for whom video comes easy. A lot of magazine articles are not that well written!
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Would that not mean the magazine is dead and it has become a program ?
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I like to look at fossils, they too have had their day and are part of history. Modern technology makes information and content sharing as simple as a click away. Paper magazines are wasteful and hard to recycle when glossy. To be honest the quality of journalism is as poor as their attitude to reviews, which are never honest or in depth. They would not want to lose their revenue stream from the advertisers
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Even the journalism in the MSM is often poor these days. Reviews are always going to be problematic when the people publishing them depend on advertising from the same companies. Not sure how that can be overcome.
our motorhome mags and their websites seem to lag the European sites.
i can find more on the foreign sites already about new models and updates for 2021, but very little on the Uk mag sites.
a friend who had a newsagent found it was getting harder to stock certain mags as they would no longer take returns, so would only buy if ordered. Look at supermarkets and WHSmiths they now have limited ranges, probably for the same reason.
regretably downloadable mags, or youtube and other social media pages are probably the way forward.
the positive of this being, as eyes get older, the page can be blown up so easier to read. The downside, my loft insulation will no longer grow thicker!
i can find more on the foreign sites already about new models and updates for 2021, but very little on the Uk mag sites.
a friend who had a newsagent found it was getting harder to stock certain mags as they would no longer take returns, so would only buy if ordered. Look at supermarkets and WHSmiths they now have limited ranges, probably for the same reason.
regretably downloadable mags, or youtube and other social media pages are probably the way forward.
the positive of this being, as eyes get older, the page can be blown up so easier to read. The downside, my loft insulation will no longer grow thicker!
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unconvinced about them myself: especially if they are pretty much a pdf of a print magazine. I suspect (hope) that some completely new disruptor will come along.
I look at some of the current online mags such as Electric Mountain Bike News (EMBN) and see that their weakness is that they have to produce all their own content.
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I am forced to use tinternet as paper mags are not always available. Tinternet is always going wrong, i don't have the microchips in my bonce to put it right........and my grandson is still too young to help.
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Ivory55
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I don’t believe that, they are born with slash dot com running through their veins. Haha
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Jim
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I love digital mags, especially on an iPad far batter than glossy paper. Magazines pop on an iPad and the reading experience is superb
I used to stand in WH Smiths for hours reading magazines. Now I use Readly. For the cost of one print mag subscription, I can browse and read thousands of magazines on my iPad. Better than that, a couple of years back issues of every mag is there for me to read. and the text of every issue searchable! If I want to read a mag about Macs, Cameras or Motorhomes, I can choose to read mags from the UK, or the US or even Australia. Siân is all over the cooking magazines. Readly Rules
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Digital magazines really are great, far better than video, waiting for some dude to get to the point. A mag is like a slick, relevant, on topic, and current website delivered to you once a month. .
I used to stand in WH Smiths for hours reading magazines. Now I use Readly. For the cost of one print mag subscription, I can browse and read thousands of magazines on my iPad. Better than that, a couple of years back issues of every mag is there for me to read. and the text of every issue searchable! If I want to read a mag about Macs, Cameras or Motorhomes, I can choose to read mags from the UK, or the US or even Australia. Siân is all over the cooking magazines. Readly Rules
. https://gb.readly.com/Digital magazines really are great, far better than video, waiting for some dude to get to the point. A mag is like a slick, relevant, on topic, and current website delivered to you once a month. .
TerryL
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Honestly I did try the on-line versions of the paper mags but simply couldn't get on with them, they were just copied pages with perhaps a little extra or two. Went back to the printed page but when I realised most of the articles were rehashes of a few years earlier, and all the "reviews" were full of praise I realised I was wasting my money and cancelled my subscriptions.
Now the only m/h magazine I read is our own MotorhomeFun Magazine - at least it tells it how it is and isn't chock full of adverts (needs a few of course to help pay for it). Any other info I need is freely available, either in the forums or more widely on t'internet.
Now the only m/h magazine I read is our own MotorhomeFun Magazine - at least it tells it how it is and isn't chock full of adverts (needs a few of course to help pay for it). Any other info I need is freely available, either in the forums or more widely on t'internet.
I don’t like digital books can’t get on with kindle things like to have a paperback then if I drop it in the bath I just put it on the radiator to dry. Can you imagine doing that with a kindle? But have to agree with Jim having a search facility is great.
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I have a Readly subscription and we all love it, MMM has just arrived so glad I don’t need buy it, most of the other motorhome and campervan mags are available along with loads of phot mags which I used spend a fortune on.
5 people can have access so its well worth the £8.00 per month
5 people can have access so its well worth the £8.00 per month
Jim
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Cheers I didn't Know MMM was on Readly, they must have just gone on. Practical has always been on.
I just have enough time in life to read the 'Chat' on this forum, what am l missing 
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Interesting discussion. Do the online versions of the magazines include any multimedia content (video, 360 degree photos etc) or are they mainly just like searchable PDFs?
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Jim
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Some do. MMM and Practical Motorhome are just straight conversions with nothing clickable within. Our mag has some interaction, we can play video within the pages and have clickable links.
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