magazines similar to TBN??

JDgreen227 · May 13, 2012

LastSTRAW said:
Farm show Magazine is one that might appeal to the readers here. There are lots of interesting things that guys make in their shops and write about. Only problem is the format, it jams everything is a newspaper style magazine. It makes good reading if you are killing time but if you need to find a particular topic it is too hard to find.

Farm Show has been discussed on TBN many times, and I am sorry to say once again it is a very limited interest publication.

Oaktree · May 15, 2012

bcp said:
For a few years when Mother Earth News first came out, there were lots of articles on building farm equipment, including tractors.

Now the articles are about how to choose new equipment from a dealer.

Yeah, there's a big difference between the Mother Earth News of the 70s and what it's become today. Wife's sister got her a subscription a few years ago, I'll look thru it when it comes, but there isn't much useful in it anymore.

radioman said:
perhaps we should build a fan base on facebook first before the mag? have more interactive posts in facebook ?

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't "get" Facebook. Given the privacy concerns not sure I want to sign up for it. I like this forum just the way it is.

As far as a TBN magazine goes...I dunno. As others have said, print periodicals are pretty much history. The fact that you can post something in one of the forums and get a reply (or get flamed :laughing

within an hour or less is hard to beat.

jmurray01 · May 15, 2012

Oaktree said:
Yeah, there's a big difference between the Mother Earth News of the 70s and what it's become today. Wife's sister got her a subscription a few years ago, I'll look thru it when it comes, but there isn't much useful in it anymore.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't "get" Facebook. Given the privacy concerns not sure I want to sign up for it.

As far as a TBN magazine goes...I dunno. As others have said, print periodicals are pretty much history. The fact that you can post something in one of the forums and get a reply (or get flamed :laughing within an hour or less is hard to beat.

Not at all, I don't get Facebook either. You'll never see my name on there that's all I'm saying.

chad22 · May 16, 2012

jmurray01 said:
Not at all, I don't get Facebook either. You'll never see my name on there that's all I'm saying.

Add me to the list of those that don't "get" facebook. I've had people tell me to sign up for an account. But I tell them. Nah, I don't like it and have no need for it.

Just like twitter. I don't "get" that site either. I have better things to do than read peoples updates every minute or so on what their doing.

And I sure ain't gonna post every detail of my life every minute on that site.

Chad

Here is somegreybloke explaining what twitter is for. I love this guy.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJr8uAqQCBM]What Twitter is for - YouTube[/ame]

buck12 · May 16, 2012

I was at lunch with my boss a couple of months ago. As we were walking out of the restaurant we over heard one guy say to another that he had tweeted something or another. As we walked away my boss said you know I never thought I would hear a grown man say that he had tweeted another man

dmccarty · May 16, 2012

buck12 said:
I was at lunch with my boss a couple of months ago. As we were walking out of the restaurant we over heard one guy say to another that he had tweeted something or another. As we walked away my boss said you know I never thought I would hear a grown man say that he had tweeted another man

That was funny.

To the OP, I don't really know of any good TBN like magazines. I have tried a few but TBN is better and free.

Most magazines are going down, down, down. One of the better magazines is Journal of Light Construction but they get thinner and thinner every issue. I think partly because of the Internet and then there is the economy.

One magazine that is bucking the trend is Our State which is about NC. It is not about tractors and such but it is an interesting read. The magazine has NOT shrunk.

Later,
Dan

Danno1 · May 16, 2012

dmccarty said:
One of the better magazines is Journal of Light Construction ...

Dan

JLC is good. Wooden Boat is good (if you're into boats). Also, the Taunton mags.

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JDgreen227 · May 16, 2012

My former sister in law has worked as a sales rep at a magazine subscription wholesaler for close to 30 years now, they try to get their customer base by offering really low rates to students and educators at the local colleges. Problem is, everybody seems to want to read online now, so print magazines are disappearing fast.

As for me, I absolutely HATE online magazines...too many ads, and I hate to sit and read. I used to subscribe to an RV publication named Trailer Life. Over a period of several years they reduced the page content from 145 to about 90, and of the 90 pages left, an actual 60 were ads or pretty pictures, with less than 30 of real content. Then the morons raised the price of subscriptions so I cancelled.

I subscribe to five magazines now, two are Hemmings car publications, one is Time magazine, one is Autoweek, and the last is Automobile. I am letting Time and Autoweek expire but just renewed to Automobile for 3 more years, $20 for 36 issues is very fair. With the amount of ads most magazines have today they should be sending them out for free. And some people pay $7 a copy at the news stand?