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    Quote Originally Posted by Simonjjb View Post
    . . . Whats Barnes and Nobel? . . .

    Whoops! --- sorry 'bout that . . .


    . . . our last big-time book seller, here on the left coast of the USA




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    Quote Originally Posted by LongRanger View Post
    I quit regularly reading almost every car mag decades ago

    Sure-sure --- I'll spend an odd afternoon-or-so at the local Barnes & Noble to sneek some page-time . . . but the only mag I actually buy anymore is Keith Martin's Sports Car Marketplace . . . mostly for the histories his Contributors tell about the cars they review

    (Problem there is I grew up on Henry Manney III (had a Testarossa as a daily driver), Tony Hogg (427 Cobra owner), and the incomparable LJK Setright (NO ONE would drive with him --- in anything), so --- enduring Donald Osbourne's blathering on Italian cars gets to be a biiiiit much. I mean --- does the man actually drive anything?)

    And anyway, from what I can tell, SCM 's doing just fine

    (No surprise, really; I mean --- consider the audience demographic . . . Olde Wythe Guys w/money-money-money)



    As for all those titles listed? --- again, consider the demographic . . .



    . . . nothing that I read --- or bought . . . or miss . . .



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    I agree that the iconic scribes are unmatched by current writers. That being said, there were a number of titles axed that were enjoyed by enthusiasts without a narrow focus.
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    I've heard that Autosport might have reconsidered. I do hope do as I read it every week -- hard copy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ibmiked View Post
    Information held in a single location and disbursed from that location will always be a ripe target for those who want to influence the masses. For automotive magazines perhaps that is less important, but we should be careful what we wish for when it comes to the convenience of a cloud based repository for books and literature.
    I've felt this exact same way since I purchased a US history book printed in 1894.
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    Show of Hands . . .

    . . . how many of us have ever read --- never-mind had an actual subscription to . . . ANY of these rags? . . .



    . . . in the last Ten YEARS?



    Lowrider?

    Seriously?




    K --- maybe Automobile excepted . . . 'cept I dropped my subscription even before DED passed-away

    By then, all there was on offer was Kitman going-on + on about his Volvos + SAABs, and what's-her-name whining about pretty-much everything --- with the rest of the articles written-up by Kacher

    Shocked they lasted this long


    For what they were charging for that? --- rather put the money in my gas tank . . . and take a drive


    Too bad, too. I used to LOVE reading R&T and C&D kinda grew-up on the stuff --- but never MT --- IMO = total garbage . . . . . .



    . . . but guess which one made it to/rules TV, now?



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    Quote Originally Posted by LongRanger View Post
    . . . how many of us have ever read --- never-mind had an actual subscription to . . . ANY of these rags? . . .



    . . . in the last Ten YEARS?



    Lowrider?

    Seriously?




    K --- maybe Automobile excepted . . . 'cept I dropped my subscription even before DED passed-away

    By then, all there was on offer was Kitman going-on + on about his Volvos + SAABs, and what's-her-name whining about pretty-much everything --- with the rest of the articles written-up by Kacher

    Shocked they lasted this long


    For what they were charging for that? --- rather put the money in my gas tank . . . and take a drive


    Too bad, too. I used to LOVE reading R&T and C&D kinda grew-up on the stuff --- but never MT --- IMO = total garbage . . . . . .



    . . . but guess which one made it to/rules TV, now?



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    The equal question, of course, is how many of those impacted visit this site?

    As to MT, yep, agreed—until that wasn't true anymore. MT was the butt of every joke among those in the business, as well—until Angus took over (whenever that was). Then it was suddenly, arguably better than some of the others, if not all of the others. Real drivers, real lap times on proper circuits set by Pobst, real road testing, real stories. One of the real surprises to me was how Angus did it. Most "turnaround" editors come in and dump the staff. He didn't. And I respected that. A lot.

    And then came MT Classic, which was very well done (but still didn't make it). MT TV looked like the new halo for a long time. That got cut back heavily, too, if I understand the moving and shaking correctly.

    The real issue with 19 of 22 being shuttered has less to do with what each of us may or may not like and more to do with the trend—a trend that reminds me a bit of Borders and Barnes & Noble taking out all of the local book stores and newsstands. When I was at Excellence, the performance of those two "directs" was seriously impressive against traditional distributors like Curtis. But then Borders went under, after taking out so many independents. Today, there is—to my knowledge—just one place you can buy Excellence in all of Marin county, and it's been that way for many years.

    While there are ways to make a buck with online content, the concern of a Borders scenario (wiping out what's there...and then disappearing) is one to be considered.

    Just my 2 cents...

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    Stout, I strongly AGREE with you. It's just awful that a big store like Borders comes and causes all the moms and pops, independent bookstores to close, and then the big bad giant(Borders) closes also.

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