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[lmt]

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.

[Bird mama]

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

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

[ValuSkr]

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.

[Jtdmum]

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. 

[halfpint1]

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

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@halfpint1 wrote:

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

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

[VaBelle35]

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.

[homedecor1]

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😉

[Venezia]

@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"?

[tansy]

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@halfpint1 wrote:

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

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Me, too, @halfpint1.