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Beecrofter wrote:
Heidi wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm just curious as to how many folks see value in subscribing to
gardening magazines.

Subscribe? hardly worth it!
Visit the local library and thumb through them a better value.
Organic gardening is pretty much empty, Mother Earth News went yuppie
or lawyer 20 years ago. Even Scientific American has been dumbed down.
Taunton Press puts out a magazine called "Fine Gardening" I would give
as a gift but read for myself at the public library.


I disagree. I think if one finds a mag that one likes, then
it is not only appropriate but important that one subscribes.
People who like a magazine but don't subscribe have no business
complaining when it goes out of business. Subscriptions are
important not only for the money, but even more important because
it allows the mag to charge more for advertising.

I have no problem with using the library or web to *find*
magazines that one likes, but if one finds a magazine one
wants to see survive, then it does both the magazine and
the readers a disservice not to subscribe.

I am a fan of Horticulture magazine, and while I browsed the
web page while deciding whether or not I liked it enough
to subscribe (www.hortmag.com), once I decided the magazine
was worth supporting I sent in my check.

billo