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Bye Bye Redbook (PRINT) Magazine

lmt — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 22:33:53 GMT

I've been wondering where my January issue of REDBOOK magazine was.

I went online to get their CS number only to find out that after January 2019, they'll no longer have a print magazine. Another one bites the dust.

My subscription doesn't run out until this May - I hope I get a refund. What really ticks me off is that I never received ANY notification that the print magazine was going to end.

This article was dated October 11, 2018

Hearst announced yesterday that 115-year-old Redbook would cease print publication in January of 2019, becoming a digital-only brand.

Just last week, the New York Post reported that many speculated the closure of the print edition was coming, particularly since the role of editor-in-chief had been left empty following Meredith Rollins exit last year. Hearst had published the title for the past 35 years.

The latest of the Seven Sisters to cease regular publication — McCall’s shuttered in 2002 and Ladies’ Home Journal stopped monthly publication and became a special interest title in 2014 — Redbook’s transition comes as Hearst adopts a digital future.

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Bird mama — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 22:50:07 GMT

I subscribe to Woman's Day - I wonder how long that one will continue.

I'm sorry that they are discontinuing your magazine @lmt

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ValuSkr — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:01:48 GMT

FYI -- The remaining "Seven Sisters" are Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, and Woman's Day. Meredith Corporation owns the first two, Hearst Corporation the other two. I guess you have to think the end is also near for GH and Woman's Day, given their Hearst ownership.

The "Seven Sisters" were aimed at married women who were homemakers with husbands and children.

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Jtdmum — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:25:18 GMT

My Coastal Living was discontinued and they substituted Southern Living.

They're not even close!

I've noticed my BHG mag is getting thinner and thinner every month. I'm sure that will go by the wayside soon too.

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halfpint1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:20:44 GMT

I use to like to read the novel in the back pages.

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:30:08 GMT

@halfpint1 wrote:
I use to like to read the novel in the back pages.

@halfpint1. I forgot all about that. I used to read it.

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VaBelle35 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:51:19 GMT

Over the years as the magazines I subscribed to (and there were many!) went under, they rolled my subscription into something else. BH&G was one, Shape Magazine was another and then some I never read and just tossed.

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homedecor1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:27:46 GMT

I was given Redbook, Good Housekeeping & Family Circle by a friend who got the deal all 3 magazines for $11.

Honestly, the Redbook December issue was no more than 1/4" thick. The other magazines I put in the library nothing but advertisements or beauty articles.

I'm sure very few buy magazines anymore. Printing, low subscriptions & postage costs must be a factor in the decision. I noticed in our supermarket checkout used to have a wide variety and now it's mostly tabloid magazines😉

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Venezia — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:47:21 GMT

@lmt- I subscribe to "Redbook" and this is the first I've heard of its demise!

I remember several years ago, I subscribed to another magazine (I think it was "Ladies Home Journal"). They suddenly stopped that one and instead of giving me the refund I requested, changed my subscription to "Family Circle" which I had no interest in whatsoever.

I wrote and demanded a refund - got no response at all and never got a refund. I eventually through out nearly a year's worth of Family Circle, all still in their plastic wrap. They'd better not try the same thing with "Redbook".

ETA: I just checked my own subscription. In July, they sent me an offer to continue my subscription for TWO YEARS!!! It runs out in March 2021.

So WTH did they do that and take my money, knowing they had no plans to keep publishing it? And, if you try to go online to check it out, it simply says it's no longer published. Isn't that fraud? Just like with "LHJ"?

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tansy — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:55:47 GMT

@halfpint1 wrote:
I use to like to read the novel in the back pages.

Me, too, @halfpint1.

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Imaoldhippie — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:27:21 GMT

I used to subscribe to several magazines but stopped them all when they were nothing but ads. What articles there were we silly and assinine. To me anyway.

I feel all magazines led to their own demize.

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AngelPuppy1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:57:16 GMT

@lmt wrote:

I've been wondering where my January issue of REDBOOK magazine was.

I went online to get their CS number only to find out that after January 2019, they'll no longer have a print magazine. Another one bites the dust.

My subscription doesn't run out until this May - I hope I get a refund. What really ticks me off is that I never received ANY notification that the print magazine was going to end.

This article was dated October 11, 2018

Hearst announced yesterday that 115-year-old Redbook would cease print publication in January of 2019, becoming a digital-only brand.

Just last week, the New York Post reported that many speculated the closure of the print edition was coming, particularly since the role of editor-in-chief had been left empty following Meredith Rollins exit last year. Hearst had published the title for the past 35 years.

The latest of the Seven Sisters to cease regular publication — McCall’s shuttered in 2002 and Ladies’ Home Journal stopped monthly publication and became a special interest title in 2014 — Redbook’s transition comes as Hearst adopts a digital future.

@lmt

AWWWWK!!! Oh, no!!!!! I never heard anything about this either! One of my very favorite magazines!!!! I have been getting this one forever. I am so sad. I just hate this.

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viva923 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:12:43 GMT

my redbook i believe runs till end of year., wonder if will get refund, i doubt it

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Venezia — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:58:51 GMT

I spent about 45 minutes last night trying to find a contact for Redbook's CS. Every single link has been disabled.

I went into one of my other subscriptions from the Hearst Corporation and couldn't even get one of those to work. As others have said, I wonder if they're going to fold even more magazines.

I paid for my two-year renewal with a CC, so I'm going to contact them about a refund. Disgusting on the part of Hearst Corporation to be schilling for renewals, when they must've known what was in the pipeline. I won't be renewing any magazines, when they run out. At least my home will have less paper clutter.

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JBKO — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:04:56 GMT

Thank you so much for letting us know lmt. Redbook is the only magazine I subscribe to (Got it for free somehow). I'm willing to bet that they'll just start sending us some other magazine we won't be interested in.

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lmt — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:17:55 GMT

I've never gotten a refund when a magazine has folded - I've never even had the option. They've always substituted another magazine.

Once I actually got a choice between a few magazines as a substitution. This was years ago; I think it was when Ladies Home Journal folded. For all the other times, the magazines would send whatever substitution they wanted.

Better than nothing.

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mimomof4 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:38:00 GMT

I also subscribed to Cooking Light for a few years and that one also ended at the end of 2018. They sent a letter that the subscription would be transferred to another magazine.

When you pay for a subscription and they stop distributing the magazine, it would be nice if you received a refund.

Does Redbook digital copy require a subscription or is it free? If it isn't free would your remaining one transfer over. Although I prefer a paper copy to an online version myself.

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Vivian — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:46:38 GMT

I received several magazines over the years that I never subscribed to. I assume I purchased something that brought a magazine suscription to my order. I haven’t subscribed to anything on my own for quite some time since I know that magazines will soon be remnants of the past, like malls and brick & mortar stores. It’s certainly sad but we cannot fight progress.

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beach-mom — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:54:52 GMT

There are days when I want to come home and relax by myself with a PRINTED magazine I enjoy. That is becoming harder and harder to do.

I still miss More, and other magazines when they talked about fashion, beauty, and women's issues only, and there was more content than ads.

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mom2four — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:52:04 GMT

WOW, this is so disappointing. I did not know about this. Redbook was one of my favorites.

I have always LOVED magazines and subscribed to many.

They have been getting very thin though lately. Sad to see.

I will never go online to read them. I prefer to hold them in my hands.

I had a subscription to Glamour which just ended, and I never heard anything from them about it either.

I really want refunds for these things.

Thanks for the info, but sorry to hear about this.