Piecework

I am starting to think that is the only way to get it --by the publisher. It is likely too specialized to get it any other way.

I get mine at Barnes and Noble and have seen it at Borders.

Cheryl

On 5 Jul 2005 11:49:43 -0700, "bdiane" spewed forth :

Interweave seems to offer all of their publications at a $22/5 issues rate, which isn't really too shabby. Retail at newsstands is $6.95 now, so for the same five issues you'd pay $39.75 plus tax. There's a certain threshold below which the price can't fall.

All hail the Walmart mentality.

I've seen it at our Hastings, but if you purchase it by the issue at a bookstore you will pay more than the $22 a year you would if you subscribed. I think it is worth the price. BonnieBlue

Well I guess I will subscribe another couple of years then. It is really the only needlework mag I like any more. Most of the others are just cross stitch which is fine but don't do that ordinarily. I think they offered me an even better deal per mag if I bought it two years so will do that. It is a good mag! barbie in williamsburg

What about "Australian Cross Stitch & Embroidery",or "Inspirations"? If you can manage to translate Italian, you might also think about "Rakam" or "Ric Amare."

Dianne

bdiane wrote:

Well Dianne, you enabler, you did it to me again! I never knew "Australian Cross Stitch & Embroidery" magazine existed but now that I've seen it it's traveled right to the top of my wish list.

My biggest problem is which issue I might want to order-- Thanks for enlightening me to this interesting publication.

;*)))))))))))))))))

Lucille

Glad to be of help, Lucille. :-) What I don't understand is why the U.S. can't produce a magazine such as those I mentioned. There are plenty of extremely talented designers, stitchers who prefer more than one technique - or who would like to "try" something different.

"Aus. CS&E" is a lovely mix, not only of different techniques, but of different levels of skill requirements.

Dianne

Lucille wrote:

I have seen it at Barnes and Noble AND Borders AND another independent bookstore in the neighborhood.

BUT, speaking as a publisher of a niche magazine -- it's a fair price because of the expense of printing and mailing such a high-quality (niche) publication. Full color, good paper quality, top-notch photography -- this stuff doesn't come cheap! And the advertisers are largely textile companies and LNS-es; these are companies that don't tend to have deep pockets. It's not like there are car companies or cigarette companies or vodka companies lining up to sell to needleworkers! (hmmm...maybe there's a car company that could install a passenger-seat Dazor as an option? Then advertise it in Pieceworks and cross-stitch mags? THERE's an idea!!!)

Also, if you subscribe you'll probably be supporting the mag better than buying from the newsstand -- at least that's our experience! It actually ends up *costing* small publishers money to be on the newsstand -- they have to print enough copies for the stores, many of which end up in landfills (50% industry average - think of that: half of all Newsweeks and TV Guides and such that you see on every checkout aisle in every supermarket in America, a new issue every week - ENORMOUS waste!) and are completely unreimbursed; copies that are sold go through distributors at a fraction of the cover price. So niche magazines that sell on the newsstand basically have to consider their newsstand presence an advertising expense with the goal of getting new subscribers.

Off my soapbox now. I just thought you'd appreciate the behind-the-scenes perspective!

Sue (sorry to be late jumping in here; I've been away!)

I'll toast to that one. :-)

Every week we get two junk papers folded in plastic, tossed on the front steps. Every few weeks I hail the deliverer and tell him not to deliver to me. It doesn't stop. One I managed to get stopped. These junk papers gets delivered to every home and business in town and literally litters the streets. No one I've talked to wants either one. So, the plastic goes in my garbage can and the paper goes in the recycling paper bin.

What a waste! Lots of complaints to city hall with no conclusion. I guess some people must love it. My answer is to drop them off at newsstands. Those that want it can get it. Dianne

You forgot the one that tripped me up with my newsletter: most advertisers don't want to advertise until you have a certain number of subscribers. They would have been quite happy to let me run a FREE ad, but weren't going to pay for the privilege.

In one of those cyclical problems, because I was funding the whole thing from my own pocket, I couldn't afford a full-scale subscription blitz without advertising revenue, and I couldn't get advertising revenue because I couldn't afford a full-scale subscription blitz. Then I got sick, and that was the end of the newsletter.