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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting observation. I just did a sample of the Numismatist: Nov. 2025 issue - 80 pages; Nov 2020 issue - 96 pages; Nov 2015 issue - 104 pages. I'm an ANA life member, so I get the hard copies in the the mail. I enjoy not always having to look at a screen to read. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I, too, prefer to read paper.
But as pointed out by others, the publishing model is increasingly moving away from paper.
I suppose there are environmental and other benefits benefits to that.
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 United States
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I will admit, reading paper is better on my eyes than a screen. I have yet to give up real books for Kindle et al.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am happy to read online articles, but I cannot (yet) abide a Kindle as a substitute for books.
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United States
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I am happy to read online articles, but I cannot (yet) abide a Kindle as a substitute for books. Yup! You get it it.  |
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United States
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I've noticed a few changes. First, they are getting much thinner, as if short on articles and missing a select group of U.S. coinage series listing the current Greysheet values once found on the last few pages. I believe the A NA cancelled their contract/agreement/JV with CDN. The latter's a business that's always been financially-oriented. Quote:
This got me thinking of how most newspapers went. Smaller in dimension, much fewer pages and now no longer relevant. Is this an indication as to where magazines are headed? Are they only read by us old folk? Yes. I don't think the vast majority of people under 40 read anything; rather, they consume electronic media. It's partly changing times & technology, and partly (okay, almost entirely) revenue-seeking. Producing physical things costs money, and that eats into margins & net income. It's more profitable to sell electronic content, and significantly more profitable to sell recurring subscriptions to electronic content. It's a strange shift, but I've found that second-hand books are cheaper than they've ever been since the printing press was invented. (But if you want an annual print subscription to the WSJ or FT, be prepared to pay.) Edited by samoth
10/31/2025 7:24 pm
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United States
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I don't kindle and I STILL buy first edition books and novels to read - although it is getting harder to that these days. BUT I TRY! |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I like reading the printed word. My monthly coin mag is never more than arms reach away from my favourite chair and I subscribe rather than just buying it from the newsagent cos they never stock many so I had to get in there quick at the start of the month. It's 96 pages and has been that size for ages. Mind you, there's LOTS of advertising. It suffered during Covid but seems to have recovered - like most of us!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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This turned out to be quite the engaging discussion. I would agree that a lack of advertising space is a partial reason to the heft magazines most once had, yet question the shift towards digital due to cost. The primary goal for any advertiser is a specific target area of product being marketed. The who, when and where. Modern technology has made nearly everything available in an instant, something physical printing and mail could not achieve. The point I'm trying to make is that it's not necessarilly cheaper to run a digital ad as it is a printed version, rather to maximize how often it is seen and by the largest number. For the time being I think most coin magazine providers (or others) are profitable enough to satisfy a dwindling subsciber base. For this reason alone, unless the current generation somehow embraces physical magazines the end is certainly near. But I'm holding out that the two formats can coexist.
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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11/01/2025 10:24 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As soon as you subscribe digitally, advertising becomes more efficient. Advertisers can pinpoint content to previous categories of goods you've purchased, etc. That is, every subscriber gets a personalized, targeted set of ads with their digital content.
Part of the reason print media is doomed.
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Part of the reason print media is doomed.  Bang for their buck. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Are they only read by us old folk? Probably in the restroom. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Note that magazines are not found lying about on the Enterprise (Star Trek)...
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Bedrock of the Community
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Probably in the restroom.  Quote:
Note that magazines are not found lying about on the Enterprise (Star Trek)... Do they take a PADD to the restroom?  |
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