The mags keep getting thinner and thinner… are they destined to extinction?
I would love to subscribe to Creating Keppsakes and Memory Makers, but they are just too expensive. It seems like they are getting smaller and smaller (somebody said Memory Makers was only 90 pages this last time) and full of more ads and less actual content.
This is where I stand as a subscriber as of today: I have a free sub to CK from an album I bought at target awhile back. But I won’t subscribe to it when it runs out unless I get an offer that is CHEAP. I used to get MM (because I could get cheap subscriptions), but I don’t anymore. I’d like to- I love flipping through the mag, but again- too $$$. I am actually subscribing to Scrapbooks Etc. though. I don’t like the content as much as CK and MM- it tends to all look the same to me- but I got it really cheap online.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but don’t you think the layouts have gotten a bit ridiculous lately (in all the magazines)? I mean, I don’t have $30 and 6 hours to spend buying all top-of-the-line product and painstakingly creating my pages and I don’t get much enjoyment out of looking at those kinds of layouts. Yeah, they’re pretty and all (sometimes), but to me they just make me feel overwhelmed and like I’m not doing enough in my own scrapbooking. And, uh, does anyone do traditional, real scrapbooking anymore? Almost all layouts in magazines are single pictures, blown up to 8×10 and are about somebody’s favorite shoes or their personality. Yeah, it’s nice if you have the time to do these kinds of pages, but as for me, I have a stack of thousands of photos waiting for me to scrap them. Things like birthdays and trips to the zoo.
If you ask me, the mags are losing their subscribers because the only people who make pages like the ones in the magazines are the people who have pages in the magazines. Just my opinion. : )
