At the risk of going off on a tangent and breaking the rules so fresh in my mind, I wonder if 'the internet' is the enemy of a published monthly?
A magazine is a un-democratic collection of articles and adverts where you're only voice is by
their letters page, you have to pay for it, news is a month or more behind, yet you can read a mag on a bus and the content is generally proofed and professional.
The internet is free, timely, has roughly the same content (only more so). In fact, the internet has no bounds and you're only constraind by what you place in the acress bar of a browser.
If I want to ask a question, I find a forum and post it online. I search the internet for images, I look at fora? for advertisers and shops to buy things. Enthusiast guys place their own sites up on specific, small interest topics, guys will write their own articles on their builds... how can a magazine beat that? And it's free content just as good as what I'd buy monthly.
I've just returned to the hobby (sort of) and I've not felt the need to buy a mag yet and the MB someone give me sits next to me unread.
I don't know what going on in the boardrooms of publications but I can foretell the direction they'll go. It's down with steadily decreasing readership until they move online with a subscription or advertising based magazine.
However, what will a gent read in the dentists waiting room? (a polite way of saying the loo!
Please don't jump on my head, I only ask a question. I saw this with other specialist areas (magazines)