Web or Print: The Great Debate (page 3)

PLEASE don't discontinue the paper mag!!!

Today I read the current issue in the "sale barn" while sheep and goats were selling!!! I'm a farmer's wife and a video editor and don't have time to ever sit down and read (haven't had 8 hrs. of sleep in almost 30 yrs.) I have to read wherever I can take the magazine. I love being a videographer and tell people I have to do it to support my husband's addiction...farming!!! Be it in the silage truck while I'm hauling or wherever, I take the magazine with me!!!!
Marjo Baan Hofman
Corsica, SD

Paper or Plastic?

I choose paper. Although I go to the Videomaker website/forum once or twice a week- I get more pleasure and comprehension out of reading the printed magazine. I sit behind a computer all day so getting behind another monitor is not what I want to do when I go home. What I prefer is to recline and read, until my eyes close and I fall into napland. I like the Videomaker magazine a lot-it's good reading. And if I have a question about something, I'll go to the forum on line.
Terry Johnson, Reptilist

Paper vs. Web

Thank you for a great magazine. I am a recent subscriber -- wish I'd discovered your mag sooner, it really serves my needs as an amateur videographer.

I spend all day on the computer, both with work and for personal business. I need a break. I like the compact nature of a paper magazine. Everything is in there, no need to click around. I like the portability of a paper magazine. I can take it with me anywhere I may want to read it. I'd love to have less paper in my life but I really do dig paper magazines over internet ones. I have other things to do when I'm on the computer. I say all this as the owner/operator of a successful web design company.
Steve Circeo
Managing Director
Maxcreative LLC

Prefers Web

Your editorial was timely for me. I travel the world a lot as a TV/web producer. When I got back from Panama the other day, I had a pile of mail and several magazines to read including Videomaker, when I have time. (I have already canceled my subscription to all magazines, newspapers and newsletters except several video mags). I am just too preoccupied to deal with more information, so most of this mail goes in the circular file.

So I was pleased to see you have moved your magazine online. The more you can do electronically, the better for me (and the thousands of expats and businesses who have moved here and throughout the world also). And you are saving dollars, trees and oil too. Keep those virtuous 1s and 0s coming...
Dr. Richard Lundquist