bstardchild
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Retro Car magazinebstardchild
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Nov 15, 2006 15:34:55 GMT
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This was posted on another forum today: Good afternoon It has today been announced that issue 42 of Retro Cars magazine (the current issue) will be the last issue to be published by Future Publishing. Although issue 43 is nearing completion, we have been told that it will not be published. Despite speculation, the title has not been purchased by another publisher and so Richard and I will be taking redundancy and leaving the company as of Friday, November 17. In the short-term both of us will be working freelance. Mark Field will continue at Future, working on Windows Vista magazine. I know someof you will have worked with me on many different titles since the early days when A&S Publishing was just 11 people so keep in touch! Regards Paul Wager Editor, Retro Cars :angry:  |
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Nov 15, 2006 15:39:35 GMT
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oh, thats not too good
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Nov 15, 2006 15:39:59 GMT
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as i said before, its a shame it happened but it had gone SO downhill
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Nov 15, 2006 15:40:24 GMT
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 Where does that leave us subscribers?
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Nov 15, 2006 15:43:03 GMT
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A bit of a shame, however I think that the internet has done for magazines to a certain extent. You will always have the casual reader/buyer, but for those who have more than a passing interest this sort of thing, the growth in both number and popularity of internet forums mean that projects 'featured' in a magazine have often had a well documented 'build-up' thread anyway. There is very little in a magazine that I cant get from the internet in terms of variety and knowledge/technical info. In addition, the internet allows instant access to this information, whereas a magazine publication is monthly. The internet also allows you to choose what information/cars you wish to see (usually for 'free') and lets be honest, what percentage of any magazine is of genuine interest to you ? You are often paying for a mass of adverts and several articles/features you don't want.
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Seth
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Nov 15, 2006 15:48:08 GMT
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I heard that news form someone who had their car photographed for a feature in an upcoming issue. It's left a freelancer who's done an article and now has to find somewhere else for it or he won't get paid for his work |
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qwerty
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Retro Car magazineqwerty
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Nov 15, 2006 15:48:26 GMT
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How are they going to honour subsriptions??
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Nov 15, 2006 15:51:48 GMT
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I heard that news form someone who had their car photographed for a feature in an upcoming issue. It's left a freelancer who's done an article and now has to find somewhere else for it or he won't get paid for his work He'll have been paid half he fee,.. but still no real compensation. I think its quite telling that this got posted on Old School Ford and not here or RCC forum... But there we go que sera sera... lets see what the future brings. |
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Nov 15, 2006 15:52:19 GMT
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can we not turn this into another internet v magazine debate please!
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Nov 15, 2006 15:53:46 GMT
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can we not turn this into another internet v magazine debate please! I wasnt aware there had even been a 'debate' in the first place. Apologies. |
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Nov 15, 2006 15:58:56 GMT
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can we not turn this into another internet v magazine debate please! I wasnt aware there had even been a 'debate' in the first place. Apologies. no worries mate, it wasnt a dig at you its happened a fair few times and often ends up with hotwire/bryn/pogweasel/me + others going round in circles lol some people like mags. some people like the net. some people like both. there the matter should end (imho) ;D |
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Nov 15, 2006 16:21:18 GMT
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keefy in da house:
some people like mags. some people like the net. some people like both. there the matter should end (imho)
But before we end it I have to put my 2 cents worth in first....
I have since there have been more and more websites on and about things that tickles my fancy been subscribing like never before, I find some rag that looks cool and I get a 3 or 6 issue subscription and if it's good I'll stay if not I woun't renew. There are so many cool rags out there and I just love to get a crisp new thick glossy magazine to leaf through at first, then get into reading and finaly stack it up among others ot in the 8-Ball Bar for others to read and if someone takes a liking take it with him/her home. I try to pester my Press Stop Center into geting some of these for me, they would be stupid not trying since I lay some serious €€€€€€ in their cash regitry every month, but some rags they can't get. So all in all I LOVE MAGAZINES and I also like looking at stuff on the web....
DP says: OK now you can talk amongst yourself...........
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Nov 15, 2006 16:43:08 GMT
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Heard this could be coming a few weeks ago. A shame, especially when there are so many useless publications out there!
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Nov 15, 2006 16:44:00 GMT
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As I mentioned in another post about asconadaz's spot in RCM, the last one aint too bad. bit sad. Hotwire hit nail on the head, why chat about on OSF and not a retro forum, it was always an extension of Classic Ford to me.  'Retro' is getting bigger i'd imagine jsut checking out 'banzai' at dinner, the cover had a drifin future retro silvia/200sx and an ae86 2door. and a pic of racer 86 blurb and one of the Toymota... |
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Nov 15, 2006 17:16:50 GMT
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Shame... It started out so well too. But I' given up reading it a long time ago. Seemed very superficial. Never felt the urge to do much more than look at the pretty pictures and move on. And I can do that in Smiths without buying it. And then I didn't even bother picking it up any more.
I'd heard the last/current issue is quite a lot improved. Too little too late it seems. Even more of a shame as they could have had a lot of input from the scene. Or did they? And got the wrong input? you can have too many focus groups...
It does seem bizzare there is a bigger market for Vintage Tractor magazine and about three publications about busses... no accounting for the British public though
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bstardchild
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Retro Car magazinebstardchild
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Nov 15, 2006 17:27:05 GMT
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I think its quite telling that this got posted on Old School Ford and not here or RCC forum... Thought exactly the same thing myself - how odd!!! |
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Retro Car magazineDarrenW
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Nov 15, 2006 18:31:03 GMT
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Such a shame. But the magazine had, for a long while IMO, been such a wasted opportunity too.
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Nov 15, 2006 18:34:08 GMT
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It does seem bizzare there is a bigger market for Vintage Tractor magazine and about three publications about busses... no accounting for the British public though Usually those who buy magazines devoted to 'strange' subjects have a very narrow field of interests and are comitted to them - a colleague of mine was happy to run his business just from classified ads in railway magazines; when I asked why just classified ads worked, he retorted that the buyers of these magazine read EVERYTHING in them, even the editorial info so large, colourful ads were a waste of time. Car orientated mags tend to be either very broadly based to the lowest common denominator (ie AutoExpress) or specialist (list whatever you wish) and it appears Retro Cars made a brave attempt to take the middle ground but like no man's land, that is a dangerous place to be and it appears they paid the price. Sad really, as for one I enjoyed the mag and sometimes PPC can get a bit too anal for my liking...... |
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored
Rover 75 - Barge
MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer...
MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored
Project Minion........
Can you see the theme?
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Nov 15, 2006 18:37:38 GMT
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My inlaws will have to get something else for my birthday from now on. Theres no other mags that i like even if RC had gone down hill recently. What will happen to CARS next year?
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Nov 15, 2006 18:49:33 GMT
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Retro Cars made a brave attempt to take the middle ground but like no man's land, that is a dangerous place to be and it appears they paid the price.
It may have been a brave attempt, but it was also a pretty curse word one. Over the last few issues that I purchassed, I had more craic picking out the blatant innaccuracies(sp?) than reading (the increasingly vague) articles. Its for this reason that I get PPC regularly over Retro Cars. I fear the mag let the public down before the public let it down.
Pity.
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