Bonnier Corp. ( Powerboat Mag) SUCKS!!

[Donskihp]

Bonnier Corp. The company that bought Powerboat Mag awhile back SUCKS! According to Matt Trulios "Speed on the Water" Powerboat Mag has been suspended again. Jason Johnson has been Terminated, and the last issue will be the Jan/Feb issue comming out in early jan.

 

[kitepool]

i thought they already were finnished months ago and thats why i got SportBoat instead

 

[Donskihp]

Earlier this year they put things on hold for about a month or two, then resumed publication.

 

[Buoy]

I quit subscribing to any mags a few years ago.
It's an outdated media. Any news is on the internet within minutes.
I do miss having something to read while doing the morning business. I'm limited to the news app on my phone.
Although I admit, I still have a PB mag T-shirt that is almost ten yrs old, and I still wear it.
I also have two T-shirts that I still wear from th '99 LEOPA Poker Run. They aren't even a year younger than my Daughter...

 

[kitepool]

I like magazines thaey are best for cutting up
into posters for my locker

 

[Ratickle]

Yeah, I know it sucks.

Have some good friends there, and have been a subscriber since 1974 I think, (based on my oldest issue).

 

[Ratickle]

What really surprised me, when they decided to reopen the magazine earlier this year. They sent out the special two year deal for subscriptions......


I also think Sharkey said he was working on a big shoot for them now.....

 

[appsyscons]

Not really to much of a surprise. Print media is dead. Information now travels to fast, print media can not keep up.

Seems like focus should have been, real time e-version, available on the web.

 

[Donskihp]

Got an Email yeaterday to renew my suscription, they assume that i don't know about the cancelation. Its the bait and switch trick.

 

[fund razor]

What really surprised me, when they decided to reopen the magazine earlier this year. They sent out the special two year deal for subscriptions......


I also think Sharkey said he was working on a big shoot for them now.....

They sent one to get a subscription for you, and one for a friend. (Classic subscriber acquisition manuever.)

 

[Pete B]

Some will argue about the value of print media, while common sense would dictate the value of 3 month old news that well is 3 months old. News travels fast via the Internet, and phones , etc. The home page here on Serious is set up to simulate , a front page of a news paper. And it,s free!

 

[Buoy]

Some will argue about the value of print media, while common sense would dictate the value of 3 month old news that well is 3 months old. News travels fast via the Internet, and phones , etc. The home page here on Serious is set up to simulate , a front page of a news paper. And it,s free!

"EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!"

I was watching the videos of the tragedies in KW this year less than 30 mins after they occurred. There were 4 different angles within 60 mins on youtube. It was very hard to watch, but it was immediately out there. Media is changing.

 

[Donskihp]

Yea Magazines are not very good for up to date news, but it was alway nice reading Teague on tec and other tec articles. Between this forum and Matts speed on the water, its pretty easy to keep up on whats going on. Powerboat mag I will miss, And Bonnier can kiss my *****, Boating Mag is not a suitable replaccement!!!

 

[kitepool]

Bonnie has apparently also put the brakes on the publishing of another important mag.
I found out today that the title 'Kiteboarding' is in jeapordy.
These are dark times for coffee tables everywhere

 

[Bobcat]

And bathrooms.....dragging the laptop into the terlet is not the same.

 

[rschap1]

I still miss Larry Flyntt's HOT BOAT

Speedwake now too. Cannot even blame that on being outdated PRINT media.

Told the wife Christmas presents are getting repo'd from me this year. I am losing out mags, websites....

Oh well. Bigger and better things. Like this place

 

[kitepool]

Doubleyou Tee Eff happened to Hot Boat?!?!?!?!?
i bought one issue off the rack some time ago and never saw it again!

 

[Ratickle]

I have a lot of Hotboat issues. It was also a pretty decent mag....


Performance Boat isn't too bad....

 

[C35]

Performance Boat isn't too bad....

It's the Popular Mechanics of powerboating. And not very timely. Their cover story for their introductory issue was the Cig 46 AMG boat with Merc 1350's- the Miami show boat from almost a year previous. had that boat not been in every publication and website and thoroughly discussed?

 

[Donskihp]

Got my last Powerboat issue earlier this week. Just when you think it could't get any thinner, same number of pages, I gues there just thinner and cheeper paper