Just picked up the lastest/last issue of Street Rodder. Those buggers had the audacity of including the blow in subscription forms! Holy shit, takes balls... APB looking out for integrity.
The inserts were probably planned/printed/inserted before the cut was finalized. Magazine printing and distribution happens in slow motion, compared to the internet.
I suspect the "Suits" in the TEN front office blindsided all the workers also. I changed our plans, we are not going to the Roadkill Zip-Tie Drags (Part of the TEN empire) - we are not going to support the TEN money machine.
I received E mail this week wanting me to extend my subscription past the end of my present one of 2021. They have yet to tell me I have received my last printed copy. It takes BALLS. It all about the BUCKS even to the very end.
In mid October I sent 99.97 to renew my Hot Rod deluxe subscription. A few weeks later I received an offer to extend it for another year for 30.00 which I did. This was less than a week before the news hit the internet that there wouldn't be any more printed issues. As of right now I'm out 129.97 and haven.t received any notice about what will happen to my subscription. Sounds like another rip off like what Buckaroo publications pulled ten or twelve years ago.
^Holy crap! I thought cable TV was expensive. Can ya tell it’s been a long time since I bought a car mag subscription.
Me too. No word about what is evidently going on with the printed stuff. Like I said before, a refund would be nice. Don't want digital or Car Craft, etc.
You guys are nuts if you think print mags make enough money to justify that many labels under one roof. I would be surprised if they were even paying for themselves. I love old mags....but I am also a MOD subscriber....I bet that $5.99 a month sub makes them a lot more dough than all the magazine subscriptions combined. I will take the Hot Rod / Roadkill empire on TV over all the current paper mags out there. Print is dead, and while I do lament its passing, I am also willing to accept that fact.
For me, there's just something about having the magazine in my hand to read. I can pick it up and read a quick article when the urge hits, whether if it's while taking care of "personal business", while visiting the in-laws or sitting at the kitchen table with something to drink. Reading things on the computer just doesn't hold my attention. Fortunately for me I'm down to subscribing to HOT ROD, and do it for only two years at a time. Conglomerates are killing us regular guys, it's happening to newspapers across the country. So called progress is making many things less enjoyable and often frustrating.
I absolutely get the attraction to paper mags...and I am the same way. I prefer to hold them, and physically own them. Sadly, however, sentimentality is not a good business model, and the money that is currently fueling the hot rod economy does not share the same nostalgia.
^^^ was recalling the early days of SoCal reporting, the devotion that went into making Hot Rod magazine.
All of our founding documents are written in cursive... if you cant read what your rights are it's easier to take them away.... Chappy
very sad to see street rodder going under now they offer me some shit choices and had to choose Hot Rod witch does not offer any custom its mostly about rebuilding engines and dino tests it shows no body work or street rod info I am disgusted no renewal on mags anymore Ray
The lack of those multiple pages of Hoffman group advertising or The money still owed for those pages is probably part of the reason why they are quitting the printed editions. Still I'd have to think that across the board in all factions of the hobby people not subscribing because they don't see enough content (or adds) of the style of build that they are interested in is a deciding factor. It's hard to pull in advertisers if you don't promote what they are selling. That can be with photos of said product on vehicles at events be it a traditional rod show, a jeep trail trip or a diesel truck pull. Same with featuring or not featuring the products in tech articles. A how to make F-1 drums and backing plates fit 40 spindles article would be sweet for a lot of us but pretty well worthless as far as promoting prospective advertisers. On the other hand not many of us are interested in how to put fake valve covers on your LS engine tech. Get over with the Jeep guys and you run into the same thing. The CJ brigade marches to a different drummer than the Wrangler brigade or the Cherokee bunch do.
All the talk about how print is dead......Frustrating...... Time to pull out the archives,and go through them again. Go through the past one by one....... I'm not one to hold a tablet in had while on my throne! I have enough to last my lifetime.......... Long hail the days of print.
I'm actually looking forward to the time when the internet is dead too and all hot rod imagery is just implanted into my brain in real time. All you squares are shunning a future that's already the past. Get with it man.
I have my new street rodder sitting here and just flipped through it again to see if the order forms were in it. I guess they wanted to get rid of them seeing I have 3 order forms for street rodder in mine besides a hot rod one but I am already getting that one too.
Yep. It's coming. Also we won't carry a wallet, credit card or anything. You will walk within a couple feet and be scanned and purchase whatever you want, or get on a plane, or whatever... and as said all the info you desire will come directly into your brain. Remember that 60's song, "In the year 2525"?
When my kids were little in the early 90s they asked me one day how a thermos knows how to keep the liquid inside hot or cold. I sarcastically said “ there’s a computer inside the thermos that figures it out” They didn’t even question it - and believed me !
How about plain old penmanship? You should try grading short answer or essay questions. Instructions: " If I can't read it it is wrong."