Do people still buy magazines

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I used to buy them
All the time I hardly even see them
In the shop anymore do you still buy them

I don't but I read the free online ones on Prime Reading, there is usually a selection of womens and house magazines

DH has a subscription to Country walking with Clubcard points and has the free magazine that I get with my Lloyds bank account, DH likes print magazines but I'm quite happy with online ones

I love a knitting magazine, patterns are not the same digitally when you keep having to wake up the screen.

I buy puzzle magazines but not others. I used to buy women's mags every week but now I think they are too expensive.

I sometimes buy one to take to the park and read while the kids play

Women’s magazines are basically dead as a genre. Unless some serious revamping goes on, I don’t see myself ever buying one again (and I used to love them).

However take a step into WH Smith and you will see the niche/special interest sector is thriving! I wanted to buy a railway magazine for my DS and there were about 10 to choose from. Now I find them very boring but each and every one was bursting with content, lots of photos, detailed articles, stuff you can’t find anywhere else. I felt a bit jealous actually as I’d love that sort of magazine if it was about something other than railways. Just hours and hours of reading.

I used to buy loads. Now I occasionally buy Platinum but that’s it. I use the PressReader app on my tablet. If you are a member of your local library you can read loads of magazines for free. Not Platinum though as yet.

I’m on holiday and reading this has made me realise this is the first time EVER I’ve not bought a magazine at the airport! I used to buy a lot of magazines, but the internet kind of killed that. I always bought a mag at the airport though. Till now apparently!

I used to buy them in my 20's, but then it dawned in me that they are virtually a book of adverts bar a couple of articles and it made no sense to buy them.

Just made me want to be thinner, younger and buy more shit. They aren't useful enough and are too aspirational.

I used to like new scientist and national geographic, but they are very expensive and I don't get time to read anymore really.

Only my TV guide once a week.
I find it easier than scrolling through the tv planner and you can read up on any new series that are coming out too.
Never bought any other mags though.

I get Radio Times delivered but plan to cancel it as the price has gone up. When I was younger I bought them all, but I don't bother with them now. For the same money I'd rather buy buy a book and I dislike being told what sort of "lifestyle" I should have. I think when money is tight like it is now, magazines would be the first thing people would cut.

I've gone through phases with magazines depending on my age. When I was little it was the Beano or a kids craft magazine, when I was a teen it was Mizz, Shout and Smash Hits, when I was getting married... then pregnant ... then kids magazines, and now I occasionally get a card craft mag when it comes with a big book of free designed paper or die cuts but I do think it's £12.00 for a crapload of adverts.

I do; I have a subscription to Prima. I enjoy its range of articles. I'll also occasionally buy something else if I don't have a book on the go, but as pp have said, they're getting too expensive now. I've always liked magazines though.

I get a couple of current affairs magazines on subscription. The article-advert ratio is much better in special interest magazines than general women's ones so there's a lot to read.

I started getting the paper versions instead of digital during the pandemic because I found myself becoming overwhelmed with online news and doomscrolling. With a magazine, you have some time looking away from a screen, it's easier to read in the park in the sunshine, and when you get to the last page, that's it, you can get up and do something else.

I have a subscription to Good Food. I've thought about switching to the digital version but it just doesn't feel the same

Another vote for Readly, it's the only thing we subscribe too. Hundreds of knitting and crochet magazines from across the world, all the misery porn ( take a break, bella, best etc.) you can bear, Viz comic, the Idler (9 quid on its own!) those daft little Commando magazines, dozens of history magazines,the Beano and you can share your subscription with another person all for a tenner a month.

I used to love magazines and bought loads. My mum was the same. I lived overseas for quite a few years and magazines were a real treat and my friends and I all bought magazines when travelling and passed them around. Whenever I went home to my parents my mum would have kept a big pile of magazines for me and I would work my way through them.

I don’t buy many now. I tend to buy Sainsbury’s magazine most regularly and Waitrose Food comes free with my card. I buy the occasional interiors magazine. This was the first year ever I didn’t buy a few magazines at the airport to take on holiday.

i think I find them very repetitive really. The same stuff is rehashed again and again.

I do buy a Christmas magazine every year. Usually Good Housekeeping and sometimes an interiors one too.

No. I've always felt like the price is extortionate for the poor quality of the content and they are always jammed with advertising.

I am old enough to remember when Best first came out. It was good then, full of useful information and interesting articles. These days it’s no different to any of the women’s weeklies - diets,celeb gossip not a lot else. I still have some 80s copies and they are interesting to look through.

DH used to get Good Food, History, and a football one.

I used to get Marie Claire, take a break, and that's life!

But they cost so much now, and much of the ones I read used to have a lot of content on repeat or were full of ads. We don't bother now.

My PressReader app is free - you just have to be a member of your local library.

Nope and not in a long while. If I am honest I do not even stop and glance at them in the Supermarket anymore. I used to work with someone who's sister used to buy a mass of them and then pass them on to us. They out me off. The amount of adverts was unreal.

I am not really sure how well they sell in general. The local newsagent shut it doors due to lack of business. Only one of the local supermarkets stock a full range of magazines, two have a tiny range. I think with the cost and the fact here you can get free library membership which includes freee magazine they are hard to sell

I've always had comics and magazines in my life. We never had much money growing up in the 60s but always had a weekly comic - Bunty which was swapped with my cousin for Judy before we moved onto Jackie. In the 70s & 80s
there was a plethora of good quality magazines for women with in depth articles alongside the usual fashion and beauty. She magazine was great but in the 90s became just like all the others.
MIL used to give me Woman/Woman's Own and they always serialized a current novel. Same with Cosmopolitan, there was an abridged serious novel at the back of it.
I'm shocked just how trashy they are today when I see them at the hairdresser's. Written for someone with the attention span of a goldfish.
Nowadays, I subscribe to Country Living & Platinum which are swapped for Good Housekeeping and Prima and then passed on to my neighbour.
I prefer a physical copy when reading but do think it's great for those who want to access magazines for free that they can do so online via their library membership.

You 'hardly ever see them in the shop'? Every newsagent, corner shop, supermarket, WHSmith, petrol station stop, convenience store etc I ever visit definitely still sells magazines! Magazine sales are certainly a lot lower than they used to be, though.

I have a magazine subscription and so does my DP. The building I work in has free glossy monthly mags in the reception area which we can take, so sometimes I pick up a couple of those, and I buy food/house magazines now and again.

When I was younger I used to buy women's magazines a lot but I don't any more, mainly because I got fed up with reading what were basically the same articles over and over again.

I was given an old copy of ' my guy' to read by a friend when I was 13 and my mum stopped me reading it.
When I got back from the school the following day it had been thrown out.

I have them in my iPad, Apple News subscription is £9.99 a month and pretty much every magazine under the sun is there. Saves me a fortune.