Hi everyone! Print magazines. Let's discuss, a sign of the past? Gone by the way of the newspapers, VHS and cassette tapes? I fear this may be truer than I thought. Early this year, CARDS and all Northridge Media publications announced they were going to an all digital format and a month or so ago Paper Crafts magazine followed suit.
So what does this mean? Well, for many crafters, not much. Based on the comments I read on Facebook and other forums, many prefer to view magazines on their iPads, Kindles and such. Me? I much prefer print! Give me a magazine I can hold, dog ear, bring to softball games and snuggle up with on the couch at night. I love to tab pages of inspirational projects and refer back to my old issues all the time. This change is very sad to me, call me old school.
So what do we do? Simple, if we want to save the print magazines, we have to subscribe to them! Most card magazines are quarterly now and down to 4 issues a year, so the annual subscription isn't really much. Here are the magazines I love the most:
Annual cost of $19.97 (for US)
What's cool about this issue is my Hot Chocolate ensemble projects are featured on the slideshow, and the graphics on the page is from my cards!
Annual cost of $21.97 plus delivery and 1 free issue
Annual cost of $21.97
So for about $20 a year, you get to support a dying industry! To be fair, I purchased a digital subscription to Paper Crafts and CARDS. Each online magazines have different features and honestly, I much prefer Paper Crafts over CARDS. They are way more user friendly and have the ability to Pin pages. I love the projects in both of these magazines and will continue to support them in their digi format, but there is no comparison, I just prefer print!!
So on to the giveaway, I have 4 magazines issue up for grabs! Just leave me a comment here on this post and let me know your thoughts on print vs. digi magazines and I will pick one commenter to receive the following:
Paper Creations
Summer 2013
Fall 2013
Winter 2014
CardMaker
Winter 2013
I will pick a winner Wednesday, November 6th! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!