Cycle World ??

Has anyone received the quarterly issue that was supposed to have been mailed out the first of August?
I haven't and can't get a reply from customer service.

Never mind. Just found this:


Cycle World, once the largest consumer motorcycle magazine in the United States and now the last remaining motorcycle print publication in the once-large Bonnier Motorcycle Group, will print its last edition in October.

Octane, a powersports finance company, announced that it has acquired the digital assets of the former Bonnier powersports print magazines: Cycle World, Motorcyclist, Dirt Rider, Motorcycle Cruiser, UTV Driver, ATV Rider, and Cycle Volta. While the other publications had ceased appearing in print form, Cycle World was still being published quarterly. "Bonnier Corp. will help produce Cycle World's final print issue in October 2020; existing print subscribers will receive a digital edition beginning in 2021," said the news release.

What magazines I still receive are almost done to pamphlet size
For another example, Trailer Life and sister magazine Motor Home are about to be combined - apparently.
It’s too bad all these periodicals are biting the dust.......... I sorta understand why.
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Sad to see but as with most print media, the specialty periodicals have been in a death spiral for years now. The independent editorial content has been going downhill for over a decade.

Before retirement I was a poor (but honest!) aerospace engineer, not a business weenie, so I have little expertise in these matters. But I find it hard to imagine a business model for print media in these times that succeeds.

stooie said:

Sad to see but as with most print media, the specialty periodicals have been in a death spiral for years now. The independent editorial content has been going downhill for over a decade.

Before retirement I was a poor (but honest!) aerospace engineer, not a business weenie, so I have little expertise in these matters. But I find it hard to imagine a business model for print media in these times that succeeds.

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Print or any form of media. Local market TV and Radio is well populated with employees working for exposure and minimal pay.

But, communications degrees are still selling well at Universities

Rest of the world still has analog media

The UK and Oz have plenty moto magazines in their news-stands. They’re not cheap, maybe that’s how they stay in business. People will buy them if they’re published, perhaps?

MCN is a newspaper that’s published once a week over in the UK. I’m not promoting how good (or bad) these publications are, I’m just wondering why...

These days all I have to look forward to is the MOA magazine and the occasional Cycle Gear mailer.

ebell said:

The UK and Oz have plenty moto magazines in their news-stands. They’re not cheap, maybe that’s how they stay in business. People will buy them if they’re published, perhaps?

MCN is a newspaper that’s published once a week over in the UK. I’m not promoting how good (or bad) these publications are, I’m just wondering why...

These days all I have to look forward to is the MOA magazine and the occasional Cycle Gear mailer.

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It's a matter of taste, some of us happily went digital before their was a membership option....

ebell said:

The UK and Oz have plenty moto magazines in their news-stands. They’re not cheap, maybe that’s how they stay in business. People will buy them if they’re published, perhaps?

MCN is a newspaper that’s published once a week over in the UK. I’m not promoting how good (or bad) these publications are, I’m just wondering why...

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I think it was moto-writer Lance Oliver who speculated one time that one thing that helps the UK publications is population density. The UK as approximately 55% the area of California, but has 170% of California's population. Thus specialty businesses (motorcycle dealers, shops, and parts suppliers) are relatively "local" to a large proportion of the population. This makes it more attractive to these businesses to advertise in MCN and other mags. Most of the readers can either ride/drive to the supplier or, at least, shipping will be relatively fast and inexpensive.

36654 said:

It's a matter of taste, some of us happily went digital before their was a membership option....

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I've been digital for quite some time in all publications where it's an option. If available, I also happily pay the small monthly subscription fee to avoid seeing the ads.

36654 said:

It's a matter of taste, some of us happily went digital before their was a membership option....

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I also went digital before it was cool, that wasn’t my point, but I still prefer a magazine over an iPad while on the shi8tter.

I will say that Cycle World’s online presence was the worst UX example of going digital. The email click-throughs landed on pages with so many unresponsive pop-ups, page jumps and click-baits (on the iPad), that resulted in making the articles unreadable.

ebell said:

I still prefer a magazine over an iPad while on the shi8tter.

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I meditate. For some reason, I'm compelled to consider the enormity of it all...........

36654 said:

I meditate. For some reason, I'm compelled to consider the enormity of it all...........

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LMAO. So to speak.

I dropped my subscription when the magazine went quarterly. About that time, it seemed to focus on custom builds and Ducatis more than I was interested in them.