[Chastings]

I actually found it quite difficult to find in stores. They put in one of my pictures in the July issue so naturally I wanted a few extra copies. I searched high and low and found that most barnes and nobles did not carry the magazine. Out of the 4 stores in orlando only 1 store still carried the magazine and their shipment of 3 never showed up (at least it hadn't when I last checked). I finally found it in a small b & n in VA. I have yet to see the magazine in any walmart I've shopped...

[gene simmons]

Originally Posted by Chastings

I have yet to see the magazine in any walmart I've shopped...

I have found it sporadically at Wal Mart. They may have it one month,then never see it again in 3 months. Hy-vee around here carried it.
I was hoping to get the issue with the 1972 gto's before it went under.

[Captainofiron]

Originally Posted by Chastings

I actually found it quite difficult to find in stores. They put in one of my pictures in the July issue so naturally I wanted a few extra copies. I searched high and low and found that most barnes and nobles did not carry the magazine. Out of the 4 stores in orlando only 1 store still carried the magazine and their shipment of 3 never showed up (at least it hadn't when I last checked). I finally found it in a small b & n in VA. I have yet to see the magazine in any walmart I've shopped...

I hadnt been able to find HPP in a store in a long long time.

The last time I remember buying one was at Walmart in 2008, haha

[John V.]

Bummer. I'm a print media kind of guy. Still subscribe to the local paper, I know subscribers have really dropped off in my neighborhood. I'm among the few holdouts. When I was a paper boy, I'd guess 90% of homes in my Philly suburban neighborhood took the Sunday paper and probably 65% took the daily. I doubt 15% of my neighbors take the paper where I live now and the median age around here is probably 50. In younger neighborhoods, I doubt anybody subscribes.

HPP runs thru Sept 2017, !

And I already subscribe to Hot Rod. So I guess I'll be getting that mag for a long time.

Feel bad for the employees. My sister is a specialty mag e-i-c. The mag titles she has worked on have undergone a lot of changes and consolidation in the past few years as they try to figure out how to remain profitable in the digital age. When she was named to her present position, she told me something to the effect that she was charged with making the digital side of the mag profitable. If that couldn't be done, she indicated they wouldn't survive.

Mags and newspapers just don't offer the immediacy most people want.

Print media definitely seems headed for the dust bin of history. And not just auto mags.