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Well, you and everyone else stopped reading the print edition 10 years ago. That's what happened.

• rusk 8y ago
  Somebody actually got me a years subscription to Time magazine about 10 years ago. I never read it. It was awful.
  • vidarh 8y ago
    The thing is, lots of magazines have fantastic content. They just don't have it at a volume sufficient to fill a whole magazine every month. I have a stack of Wired for example - early Wired in particular every now and again had fantastic articles. But the ones I've kept are from many months apart, and each one of them I've kept for one article. A magazine like Time with the reputation time has, tends to have that reputation because of the occasional articles and images that are outstanding enough to be remembered, and because their baseline quality is high enough not to detract from the successes, not because everything is consistently good. In print publishers got away with that. People would read it because they often had no competing content available pre ubiquitous internet (most of my remaining paper magazines were bought for transatlantic flights). Online, if the articles don't draw in enough eyeballs, it serves little purpose.
    • rusk 8y ago
      Maybe once upon a time but I feel increasingly that online competition is increasingly being used as a scapegoat for declining editorial standards. The rise and fall of publications is a natural cycle. There’s no reason at all why Time should continue immortally, it’s just a trademark at this stage.
    • samstave 8y ago
      If i were a billionaire who was interested in magazines, i would buy up as many as possible and have the staff write in the genres they want to write in about each topic and then just let people to subscribe to each vertical channel they want...