from people who really do want to see your mag work
I don't think anyone doesn't want to see this mag not work, but when you stick your head out and ask for honest feedback you don't always hear what you want to hear. Good on Carlisle for having a crack and doing it how he thinks it should be done, but doing a monthly magazine is one of the toughest things these days
never buy mags, to much good info here on myswag.
and this is why. The internet and forums have killed mags, why wait a month for (4 week old) news and 'how to's' when you can have it for free (sort of) at the click of a button. Remember back 10+ years ago when at the start or end of the month you'd check out the newsagent (or letterbox) for your favorite mag as it was our main source for product reviews, diy tips, or trip reports.
Now you can get it all in 100 times more detail on this site alone, even daily updates with pics of someones big trip.
I used to spend 80 odd dollars a month on different mags (not including 'those' ones
), but stopped about 9 years. 1 due to cost and 2 due to getting better content off the net.
I think we're allot more picky of magazines than we used to be, because the only other thing we had to compare it to were other magazines.
Carlisle appears to be doing something different, the other option is to sell out to advertisers. Music, books, cooking, fishing. We probably all enjoy at least 2 of those things while camping, why not including them in the mag?
