Things we see driving around - original content (pictures you snapped)

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Sunrise yesterday on the way to another field.
 
JHZR2 said:
Can the demand be that much higher in Germany?

USA has at least 340MM people. English speaking world, what, 1-2B of consumers…?
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India has a huge number of publications. Japan must be among the top countries in terms of publications. The Japanese get their news primarily from printed media. They don't care about the latest sound bite. Publications thrive in Europe and Scandinavia. Many Americans don't read much. I know educated-in their-field people who don't read anything other than what they have to read. I don't know what else to tell you other than that the typically fast American lifestyle doesn't lend itself to picking up a nagazine, sitting down, and leisurely going through it. The thing is, though, you can get pretty much any publication here.
 
vavavroom said:
India has a huge number of publications. Japan must be among the top countries in terms of publications. The Japanese get their news primarily from printed media. They don't care about the latest sound bite. Publications thrive in Europe and Scandinavia. Many Americans don't read much. I know educated-in their-field people who don't read anything other than what they have to read. I don't know what else to tell you other than that the typically fast American lifestyle doesn't lend itself to picking up a nagazine, sitting down, and leisurely going through it. The thing is, though, you can get pretty much any publication here.
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Not too long ago far more publications were readily available in the USA.

With computer word processing and smart translators, any language is available.

We just don’t want it. I agree, the fast American lifestyle… and the need to store all these beautiful publications to reference isn’t a popular thing…
 
JHZR2 said:
Not too long ago far more publications were readily available in the USA.
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All kinds of periodicals are available at bookstores, and libraries, and international airports. Many larger cities have bookstores with international sections. But there are ever fewer bookstores and access is often limited due to distance. Many US publications have disappeared because they simply could not afford to stay in business. I'm not sure many American want to read Indian magazines that specialize in cricket or in Bollywood.

Here are a few example of publications that I grew up with. Fangoria is still published four times a year. Starlog folded in the late 2000s. Cinefex started out as quarterly and inn effort to keep up with our increasingly faster world they became a bi-monthly for a few years before folding a few years ago. It was mostly the exorbitant printing cost that nailed their coffin shut. The rise of the internet rang early alarm bells in the physical media publication world. Now we are stuck with having the latest "news," poorly edited, not fact-checked, not proofread, but here comes the next blurb so nobody cares.

JHZR2 said:
We just don’t want it. I agree, the fast American lifestyle… and the need to store all these beautiful publications to reference isn’t a popular thing…
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vavavroom said:
India has a huge number of publications. Japan must be among the top countries in terms of publications. The Japanese get their news primarily from printed media. They don't care about the latest sound bite. Publications thrive in Europe and Scandinavia. Many Americans don't read much. I know educated-in their-field people who don't read anything other than what they have to read. I don't know what else to tell you other than that the typically fast American lifestyle doesn't lend itself to picking up a nagazine, sitting down, and leisurely going through it. The thing is, though, you can get pretty much any publication here.
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Japanese publications have the best pictures.
 
vavavroom said:
All kinds of periodicals are available at bookstores, and libraries, and international airports. Many larger cities have bookstores with international sections. But there are ever fewer bookstores and access is often limited due to distance. Many US publications have disappeared because they simply could not afford to stay in business. I'm not sure many American want to read Indian magazines that specialize in cricket or in Bollywood.

Here are a few example of publications that I grew up with. Fangoria is still published four times a year. Starlog folded in the late 2000s. Cinefex started out as quarterly and inn effort to keep up with our increasingly faster world they became a bi-monthly for a few years before folding a few years ago. It was mostly the exorbitant printing cost that nailed their coffin shut. The rise of the internet rang early alarm bells in the physical media publication world. Now we are stuck with having the latest "news," poorly edited, not fact-checked, not proofread, but here comes the next blurb so nobody cares.
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We have plenty of each around. I don’t feel that the selection is as good as it was.

The cost of printing is a big part of it for sure.

But the access to these things is indeed an issue too. The supermarkets, drugstores, small book stores, etc. used to be all over.

It’s a vicious cycle…
 
The list of popular magazines that have gone out of print since the Internet came along is as long as your arm. The number of smaller, more obscure ones that have folded is vastly greater. Only the absolutely most popular ones have or will survive.

I saw a statistic that the number of subscriptions purchased by Americans fell by more than half during COVID. I'm sure it's much, much larger if you stretch the time frames out.
 
I noticed I wrote nagazine. That may have been a Freudian slip. They used to have those magazines that showed all the great roads for driving in beautifully illustrated editorial articles. I have quite few of them going back to the 90s.
 
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