It's Election Day in the United States, and it's been going on for so long, and has been talked about so much, that we are all exhausted.
But today, I am asking for your vote on - Print or Digital?
Yesterday, I got an issue of a magazine my spouse and I happen to like - Birds and Blooms Extra. We love it especially to read at our leisure. It's heavy with photograph. We had just extended our subscription for two years because their price was going to go up. No problem there.
But there was this on top of the cover:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE. "Birds and Blooms EXTRA is going digital. We are pivoting the format of Birds and Bloms EXTRA magazine from print arriving in-home to digital arriving in your inbox as of the upcoming February 2025 issue...but rest assured the digital issue will contain all the same content you have come to love!" (they will also extend our subscription by one issue.)
Oh no.
The last thing we want is still another digital read.
They did offer a phone number for questions or to cancel and receive a refund.
We are seriously thinking of cancelling.
So, my voting question to you, my readers, is this?
Would you accept the digital subscription (no idea this would happen when we extended our subscription for two years recently)? Or would you vote to cancel?
It won't influence my decision. I'm just curious.
Print or digital?
Print for me. Digital is fine, but not as good for browsing, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI am 50-50 on this. My newspaper subscriptions are digital. My wildlife and parks magazines are print. I throw the mags out after reading, so if they went digital, I would accept it.
ReplyDeleteI do all my reading on my iPad and e reader. I get one magazine that’s print, but I tend to read the articles on y e reader and not in the print version.
ReplyDelete...for magazines I like to hold the real deal in my hands!
ReplyDeleteI prefer the digital route. Reading anything extensively on my iPhone, I don't like too much but it's really convenient to do with my iPad and of course the computer works great, too. Plus, the printed material isn't left to clutter your home. The thing is make sure your computer doesn't get cluttered. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't read digital books, or magazines. I don't have an eReader. I have paper books or magazines or I don't read them at all. I would cancel any subscription going to digital only. My newspaper did that a few years ago, then closed altogether. The nearby city's paper stepped in to publish, but it's only a few days a week and too expensive.
ReplyDeleteBirds and Bloom? Digital? The point of magazines with lots of photos is the photos! My daughter save photos like in that publication for scrapbooking.
I think going digital is the beginning to them stopping publication all together.
I would probably cancel, but that's because if I get a physical magazine, I want to read it when I'm not on a computer or my phone. If you enjoy the content, perhaps keeping it digital won't be so bad. Of course, you could let the subscription lapse after what you've already paid for if you find you don't enjoy the digital format.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely digital. I hate paper...
ReplyDeleteI like print more.
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