For a Democrapic “financial donor”, poor, ickle collectivist seems not to understand the world in which he lives. Why invest in something being replaced by technology?
I grew up reading outdoor magazines and hunting and fishing magazines. Now, with the Internet, I only read such magazines while waiting at the dentist, and sometimes I find the articles as distasteful as the needle I know is waiting for me behind the doors of said dentist’s office.
With the advent of the Internet forum, a vast array of data is available, and often it is a two way source with rapid feedback.
Whether I need data about how to fix an early AMT .380 for a friend who found his little pocket gun to have developed the distressing habit or requiring the trigger to be pulled forward before it would fire the next round, or a 1994 F350 A/C system with an irregular shutdown issue - the data to deal with just about anything is on the net and free. Did I remember to say net data IS FREE! ! !
Why pay for out of date data, without feedback capability, and with no ability to expand further on any part of that magazine article?
Let me use vehicle repair as an example. A Chilton’s manual is a pitifully limited resource when dealing with most vehicle issues. Use the 2005 Safari AWD van as an example, virtually any aspect of repair or modification(and there is a small industry serving that interest) is available at Astro/Safari.com AND the data is far more detailed, and supported by images too expensive to print in a Chilton’s type service book.
IMHO, the Democrap who bought those gun magazines is going to see happening to that investment what happened to newspapers.
Got extinction? Newspaper owners do, and the Democrap under discussion just bought lots of it, too.
;-)
Debate Over Guns Now Colors a Buyout Bid
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
March 4, 2013, 8:22 pm
“Among the companies that Mr. Hindery’s private equity firm owns is InterMedia Outdoors, which publishes magazines including Guns & Ammo, RifleShooter and Handguns. It also owns the Sportsman Channel, which counts the National Rifle Association as one of its big advertisers. It broadcasts shows like “Cam and Company” from NRA News, and “Wanted: Ted or Alive,” featuring Ted Nugent.
DealBook Column
Late last year, Mr. Hindery won a bid to acquire the rival Outdoor Channel, a publicly traded company, for $200 million. Outdoor Channel could be described as the more politically correct and less sensationalistic competitor to Sportsman Channel, focusing on hunting and fishing.
Don’t forget youtube. I have fixed many, vehicles, firearms, appliances, etc. with useful help from youtube. A video is worth a thousand magazines.