The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
MJ
On 3/18/2019 1:09 PM, MJ wrote:
> The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
>
> At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
>
> Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
>
> I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
>
> MJ
>
Sad to see, but most newspapers and magazines are losing ground to TV
and internet.
The newspaper was a part of my day since I was a kid but dropped it a
few years ago as it was so watered down. Used to get about 8 magazines,
now 2.
Thanks for the posts. I'm glad I passed up my chance to renew PW
last month. These days, I'm finding better reading value in books
over magazines (though I did spend more than $20 on magazines at
B&N last month--that was an anomaly). Hopefully, FWW will be
able to make a better go of it.. I noticed PW owes a lot of money
to a lot of companies including Dover Publications (which I would
root for too)--I hope all debts are paid.
Bill
On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 12:09:31 PM UTC-5, MJ wrote:
> The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
>
> At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
>
> Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
>
> I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
>
> MJ
A couple of years ago I subscribed to at least four woodworking mags. While the page count remained the same, at least in some of them, the content just went away. Along with the content went my subscription.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:53:30 -0500, ads wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT), MJ <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
>>
>>https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
>>
>>At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
>>
>>Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
>>
>>I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
>>
>>MJ
>
>I find that some magazines I once took have been replaced by the
>electronic equivalent - the "how to" articles that would have been in
>an electronics or woodworking magazine are now on instructables.com
>(along with a lot of frou-frou fluff). Occasional useful things are
>on youtube.com with a few finding their way to pinterest.com (along
>with a lot of excess baggage). Make magazine is sometimes useful (but
>not useful enough that I renewed my subscription) but their PDF books
>can be more useful because they group together articles of a similar
>nature.
>
>Other magazines thinned themselves down to the point there was more
>advertising than useful content so I stopped taking them - and I
>expect some of those will also experience Chapter 11. If you don't
>have content, people will NOT buy a book of advertising.
>
>RadioShack is a ghost of its former self with my nearest one now 25
>miles away instead of 2 miles away - but they do run some good online
>sales for those of us who still build things, with a BOGO sale every
>quarter or so and free shipping at $19 and up. Some of the bits for
>the new ham radio station I'm building are from them, some from
>banggood.com, some from a company in India and miscellaneous parts and
>hardware from Ebay vendors in the US, China and the Phillipines. I
>would have considered buying a Heathkit but they're also long gone. On
>the other hand, the new rig has digital frequency readout, passband
>filtering (no tuning required when you change frequencies), runs on 12
>volts and could be powered almost indefinitely with a 35AH battery and
>a 50 watt solar panel. The radio was $129, the case $25 (from a
>.com). I have a power supply and wire for an antenna. I bought one
>pre-wound antenna matching coil and wound the other one myself. I
>bought boxes to put the coils in because I didn't have anything the
>right size. For about $175, I'm on the air on all the ham bands
>between 3 and 30MHz. I have a PTT mic for SSB. Now if I can just
>find that old CW key...
Radio Shack is gone here, but if you need ammo or some gun smithing
the new tenant can handle all of that at a reasonable price unlike
Radio Shack.
MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
>
> At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
>
> Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
>
> I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
>
> MJ
Bob Lang opines:
<https://readwatchdo.com/2019/03/popular-woodworking-corporate-owner-files-for-bankruptcy/>
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT), MJ <[email protected]>
wrote:
>The publisher of Popular Woodworking files for bankruptcy:
>
>https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/#5526409f4355
>
>At this time, unable to find any info as to the fate of Pop Woodworking.
>
>Another fine woodworking pub perhaps biting the dust.
>
>I really like this magazine and would sad to see it go.
>
>MJ
I find that some magazines I once took have been replaced by the
electronic equivalent - the "how to" articles that would have been in
an electronics or woodworking magazine are now on instructables.com
(along with a lot of frou-frou fluff). Occasional useful things are
on youtube.com with a few finding their way to pinterest.com (along
with a lot of excess baggage). Make magazine is sometimes useful (but
not useful enough that I renewed my subscription) but their PDF books
can be more useful because they group together articles of a similar
nature.
Other magazines thinned themselves down to the point there was more
advertising than useful content so I stopped taking them - and I
expect some of those will also experience Chapter 11. If you don't
have content, people will NOT buy a book of advertising.
RadioShack is a ghost of its former self with my nearest one now 25
miles away instead of 2 miles away - but they do run some good online
sales for those of us who still build things, with a BOGO sale every
quarter or so and free shipping at $19 and up. Some of the bits for
the new ham radio station I'm building are from them, some from
banggood.com, some from a company in India and miscellaneous parts and
hardware from Ebay vendors in the US, China and the Phillipines. I
would have considered buying a Heathkit but they're also long gone. On
the other hand, the new rig has digital frequency readout, passband
filtering (no tuning required when you change frequencies), runs on 12
volts and could be powered almost indefinitely with a 35AH battery and
a 50 watt solar panel. The radio was $129, the case $25 (from a
.com). I have a power supply and wire for an antenna. I bought one
pre-wound antenna matching coil and wound the other one myself. I
bought boxes to put the coils in because I didn't have anything the
right size. For about $175, I'm on the air on all the ham bands
between 3 and 30MHz. I have a PTT mic for SSB. Now if I can just
find that old CW key...