Off Topic » Motorcyclist magazine ceases production

My formerly favorite U.S. motorcycle publication, Motorcyclist magazine, is going out of business: https://advrider.com/motorcyclist-magazi...int-production/

Unfortunately, I am not in the least surprised. When Motorcyclist magazine switched to a $12 (more than the UK publication, Bike, sells for in the U.S.), bi-monthly, large-format, life-style, we-no-longer-test-motorcycles, magazine, I wrote the two editors a long snail-mail letter informing them that I had been a loyal subscriber ever since the magazine's Peterson Quarterly days during the early 1970's and that it was my favorite magazine to learn about how motorcycles worked and the technical details of the new models each year. I told them that if they continued with the new format, the magazine would loose all of its long-time readers and enthusiastic subscribers - and by the way, please cancel my subscription. And now my prediction has come to past. I expect Cycle World to follow them into the trash can soon, also. That magazine only comes out four times a year and are so similar to Motorcyclist that I could hardly tell them apart. Interestingly, my subscription to Cycle World expired last year, but they still send me the magazine. Talk about desperation.

I took Motorcyclist for many years but stopped it around 5 years ago or so.
At that time I dropped several other magazines.
Now the only ones I get are Rider, Motor Trend and the club magazine BMW ON.

Former Editor in Chief, Brian Catterson ruined "Motorcyclist" years ago. Print periodicals are on the way out in any case, but Catterson's arrogance and his handling of fellow-journalist, Dexter Ford's firing really hurried things along...

Kind of strange. I used to get Motorcyclist, but dropped it when the format changed. Nothing there for me. I still get emails from both Cycle World and Motorcyclist (both are Bonner) and they pretty much duplicate each other. Very little of interest to me.

Here is another article about Motorcyclist magazine and its history. Apparently they will continue on-line. The article says that no one buys or reads print magazines anymore. If that is the case, why is Bike magazine still packed full of articles and seems to quickly sell out at my local U.S. bookstore?
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/mo...s-its-print-run