Anyone checked out Rolling Stone magazine lately?

[marmar]

I picked up one to browse through at the bookstore yesterday and Wowzer !!!! It's the size of a pamphlet now - much shorter and very much thinner.

[90-percent]

1. in general

the print magazine business is hurting. They are going to have to overhaul their business model if they want to survive.

-90% Jimmy

[AngryOldDem]

2. They changed over in mid-2009.

Reader reviews of it were mixed, as I recall, but cost was a factor.

If you really want a shock, check out Newsweek.

[PassingFair]

3. It looks like a "Weekly Reader"...

Like 20 pages......

Strange new world...

[Z_I_Peevey]

5. And yet Organic Gardening just got bigger.

Strange, eh?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Our daly newspaper shrank, as did Parade mag. insert.

Had no idea magazines were shrinking...we have no subs.