Chris Galvin
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According to a Lee Evans tweet next month's issue will be the last ever issue of Birding World, does anyone else know anything more about this or can confirm?
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Has Birding World Folded? (1 Viewer)
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Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Think you'll find most magazines can be folded 
scary-canary
Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some
First I've heard.
I'd be prepared to sell Lee my back issues from the boot of my car in Radipole car park if he wants to make me an offer.
I'd be prepared to sell Lee my back issues from the boot of my car in Radipole car park if he wants to make me an offer.
Chris Galvin
Well-known member
Thanks Mark
draycotebirding
Draycote recorder
Apparently so Chris, amongst the nonsense on FB
The DVD might have a part in it? http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/DVD1.htm
Regards
John
simonknightphotography
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I wonder if they will be refunding subscriptions for those issues now not being produced? No mention of this on their editorial on the frontispiece.
dogfish
Well-known member
Think you'll find most magazines can be folded
Don't subs run from Jan to December?
Sean
John Cantelo
Well-known member
Sad news. The editorial in the latest edition (which arrived yesterday) was certainly a shock. The magazine has certainly been at the cutting edge of discussions about field ID etc for a generation so will be very badly missed. The team deserve warmest congratulations for all that they've achieved.
I've no idea why they've made the decision, but like too many of us here I guess the team are reaching the point where retirement becomes a attractive option. It's a little surprising in some ways that it's not been sold on to an interested party (even as an "e-zine"), but I guess the economics of magazine publishing might have something to do with it. Let's hope that one positive benefit will be a strengthening of the economic position of magazines like 'BB' and 'Birdwatch'.
I've no idea why they've made the decision, but like too many of us here I guess the team are reaching the point where retirement becomes a attractive option. It's a little surprising in some ways that it's not been sold on to an interested party (even as an "e-zine"), but I guess the economics of magazine publishing might have something to do with it. Let's hope that one positive benefit will be a strengthening of the economic position of magazines like 'BB' and 'Birdwatch'.
rockfowl
Mark Andrews
I suspect that this is a major factor - http://leicesterllama.blogspot.co.uk/
Simon Wates
Well-known member
I will treasure even more the measly 50 or so oldish copies I have - they really revived my urge to find unusual birds. Its a pity really - I shall miss the cover paintings too!
Chris Galvin
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And this
http://birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=4113
Oh, and this too,
http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Co..._id=1002219563
We now have weekly e-zines instead
FXM
Frank Moffatt
The excellent Finnish Magazine Alula was one of the first to go-under followed a few years later by the irreplaceable Yorkshire Birding - Techno Birder and all. The signs were there.
I'm in the same boat as several others in that I used to subscribe to BW but stopped doing so several years ago. In my case it was because I felt the id articles were becoming less and there was a move towards the presentation of excellent photos of ‘sought after' rarities. Fine in its own way but there was a lot of very similar, easily accessible material elsewhere. Plus I'm not a twitcher, although I admit to having travelled to a few over the years. I felt BW was always worthy of a read and stimulated much discussion whether you agreed with it or not. It will be missed I think.
We move forward. Inevitable I suppose. Now it’s Birdguides and similar E-zines that provide us with a good deal of our info. And it’s bang up-to-date.
We also have an incredible number of blogs out there many of which are excellent sources of good info while just a few provide insignificant people with the opportunity to boast endlessly about themselves. ‘Trumpet blowers’ is how one Yorkshire Birder described the latter to me.
I've got to admit to being a little saddened by the level of accuracy of some of the material I’m being exposed to. It looks good in the Blog, it then finds it way into the E-zines, people read it and believe it, but the birders on the ground know it’s a long way from being accurate.
There's a price to pay for progress.
I'm in the same boat as several others in that I used to subscribe to BW but stopped doing so several years ago. In my case it was because I felt the id articles were becoming less and there was a move towards the presentation of excellent photos of ‘sought after' rarities. Fine in its own way but there was a lot of very similar, easily accessible material elsewhere. Plus I'm not a twitcher, although I admit to having travelled to a few over the years. I felt BW was always worthy of a read and stimulated much discussion whether you agreed with it or not. It will be missed I think.
We move forward. Inevitable I suppose. Now it’s Birdguides and similar E-zines that provide us with a good deal of our info. And it’s bang up-to-date.
We also have an incredible number of blogs out there many of which are excellent sources of good info while just a few provide insignificant people with the opportunity to boast endlessly about themselves. ‘Trumpet blowers’ is how one Yorkshire Birder described the latter to me.
I've got to admit to being a little saddened by the level of accuracy of some of the material I’m being exposed to. It looks good in the Blog, it then finds it way into the E-zines, people read it and believe it, but the birders on the ground know it’s a long way from being accurate.
There's a price to pay for progress.
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TwoDipsfromAmsterdam
Anything About?
Strange, but the BW website makes no mention of ceasing publication. It's still advertising for subscriptions!
David
David
John Cantelo
Well-known member
As indicated elsewhere one sad consequence of BW ceasing publication is the loss of an important 'shop window' for bird art both on the cover and inside on its pages.
scary-canary
Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some
Mine doesn't as far as I'm aware. And it'll be missed. It was so much better than Birdwatch.
simonknightphotography
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No they run at random periods, mine runs From September each year, it depends on when you started subscribing.
A refund would be nice, I can put it towards a British Birds subscription.
Mike.
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