Boating Print Magazine

[wiley]

Waiting for the wife at the grocery store I went to the mag rack and grabbed a magazine called "Boating".

In my hand it felt more like a calendar than a magazine ... Very thin ... couldn't have had 40 pages in it.

Are other boating mags like this?

[TraderVic]

BOATING has recently changed ownership, as I understand it. Yes, it's gotten thinner. Might just be a result of the recession, though.

[fireboat]

This is typical of nearly all of the print media that are struggling to survive. They just haven't figured out a way to profit from the internet.

Boating Magazine is part of the Bonnier Marine Group that dominates the boat magazine business with other publications like Motorboating, Boating Life, Cruising World, Marlin, Saltwater Sportsman, Sportfishing and Yachting.

The magazines are thinner and they have fewer staff writers as they rely more on cheaper freelancers.

Who knows, they may dissappear entirely leaving internet only sites like Boat Test and Mad Mariner, although I think there is room for both.

[njterrier]

There was a magazine "Center Console Angler" which bit the dust last year I believe. I thought it was a really good magazine. Obviously it catered to the "smaller" fishing boat owner/enthusiast.

The Barnes and Noble by me carries a few Australian fishing magazines which I look over in the store, seems that most of their reviews and fishing articles revolve around smaller aluminum boats. Those aussie mags are at least double the thickness of the SWS/Sportfishing mags here, and the quality of the photos are amazing as well as the articles.

Internet/recession has definetly killed off many of the mags, but we still need reading material for the porcelan office.

Scott

[svbowwow]

You should try Pacific Yachting Magazine. It's usually 150 - 200 pages so that would be a serious calendar

It's available as a digital edition at http://bit.ly/9eHc7E

[BMarkey]

That Center Console Magazine was excellent. It just disappeared.

[Bobro]

Waiting for the wife at the grocery store I went to the mag rack and grabbed a magazine called "Boating".

In my hand it felt more like a calendar than a magazine ... Very thin ... couldn't have had 40 pages in it.

Are other boating mags like this?

[Bobro]

I have noticed some of my boating mags are thinner but some thicker. Marketing skill for ads?

[TVBX]

Waiting for the wife at the grocery store I went to the mag rack and grabbed a magazine called "Boating".

In my hand it felt more like a calendar than a magazine ... Very thin ... couldn't have had 40 pages in it.

Are other boating mags like this?

Perhaps more to the point: They give away subscriptions to this at all the boat shows. They are pretty good at not cancelling either after the trial. Salt Water Fisherman, Boating, Ski, and a few others seem to be the most obvious. I think there is a cruising mag and one other super-boat mag.

[Sidewinder]

Waiting for the wife at the grocery store I went to the mag rack and grabbed a magazine called "Boating".

In my hand it felt more like a calendar than a magazine ... Very thin ... couldn't have had 40 pages in it.

Are other boating mags like this?

Had been getting Trailer Boats Magazine for 20+ years. Stopped it as got way to thin and took out Tow car and Trailering part. Now I onyy get Pacific Coast Sport Fishing, Western Outdoor News and Fish Sniffer. Cancelled Sport Fishing and Salt Water Sportsman when they took out Fishing Tips section.