Time Inc. has taken away the life support from LIFE. Like its other flagship magazine, Time, nobody is reading LIFE magazine anymore (unless you count Vincent, relics from the 60s).
I didn't get to read LIFE very often but I think it's like the National Geographic without the geography part. Great photos are their trump cards.
I think dead-tree editions of magazines are having a hard time making ends meet. Last year Forbes Asia invited me to subscribe to the bi-weekly for one year at HK$77 only. I obliged.
I found that it's printed in Singapore and mailed all the way to HK. How can they survive on HK$77 a year per copy if not for the advertising revenue? The regular annual subscription rate is HK$510 though.
Survey says: No one is reading the bible anymore. Magazines/books come and go. For the last 5 years, I have been subscribing 'The Economist'. I think I will do the same in the next five. FYI, I haven't been reading the bible for a long time.
ghorse: thanks for the link. Seems like some serious Chinese literature research stuff there. Interesting.
I always think The Economist is cool. And I have to say I rather like their acid-tongued writing style. I used to subscribe it when I was in college, now every now and then I will get free copies from the mail room.
I read the Bible since grade school and I even took the HKCEE Biblical Exam and got a C from it. Now my time is sucked up from reading "real people" second rate writings i.e. blogs.
I didn't get to read LIFE very often but I think it's like the National Geographic without the geography part. Great photos are their trump cards.
ReplyDeleteI think dead-tree editions of magazines are having a hard time making ends meet. Last year Forbes Asia invited me to subscribe to the bi-weekly for one year at HK$77 only. I obliged.
I found that it's printed in Singapore and mailed all the way to HK. How can they survive on HK$77 a year per copy if not for the advertising revenue? The regular annual subscription rate is HK$510 though.
Survey says: No one is reading the bible anymore. Magazines/books come and go. For the last 5 years, I have been subscribing 'The Economist'. I think I will do the same in the next five. FYI, I haven't been reading the bible for a long time.
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I read NEXT magazine for almost every issue, bought by Deliza
ReplyDeleteHow about trying to look it up here:
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See if you could get anything.
ghorse:
ReplyDeletethanks for the link. Seems like some serious Chinese literature research stuff there. Interesting.
I always think The Economist is cool. And I have to say I rather like their acid-tongued writing style. I used to subscribe it when I was in college, now every now and then I will get free copies from the mail room.
I read the Bible since grade school and I even took the HKCEE Biblical Exam and got a C from it. Now my time is sucked up from reading "real people" second rate writings i.e. blogs.
I love you all Guys.