SOF Magazine Will Cease Publication

[recon]

http://www.guns.com/2016/03/01/soldi...fter-40-years/

[rci2950]

I use to get that magazine when i was in middle school. The amount of ads eventually overtook the articles.

[Helen Keller]

it should have added a sheet of tin foil each issue..........


I breezed few a couple issues the last few years.. garbage.

[raxar]

Toilet reading, probably in line with "guns and weapons of mall security" though I haven't seen an issue in a couple years.

[Richard Simmons]

I read and enjoyed it 30+ years ago but haven't seen an issue in a long time. Everything comes to an end I guess.

[skorpion]

I skimmed through an issue a few years back and wasn't impressed. As already mentioned, it was more ads than articles - and the articles weren't very impressive. Nothing you can't read about on the interwebz.

[ltorlo64]

I didn't even realize it was still in print. I haven't seen or heard of it in a good 10-15 years.

[dfariswheel]

It's not going away, it's going digital.
Digital magazines are the coming thing of the future. Why print when you can ePublish at a far lower price and actually make more money per issue.

[Schuetzenman]

I didn't even realize it was still in print. I haven't seen or heard of it in a good 10-15 years.

This!

[jet3534]

I remember when Robert K. Brown and and (if my memory is correct) a SOF employee wrote about going to Southern Rhodesia and they carried (and maybe used) Mini-14s in the field. Those were the days. Now no one would write a positive article about a white minority government or carry a Mini-14 in a war zone. The last comment is not intended as a negative. I think the Mini-14 is a great carbine.

[Starvin]

Not really surprised it's dying. Print magazines are hurting. The magazine certainly fueled my imagination when I was younger but post 9-11 every time I picked up a copy and flipped through I didn't really see anything terribly fascinating.

No more naked ladies in Playboy and no more Soldier of Fortune... teenage Starvin would have been disappointed if he had heard what the distant future of 2016 looked like.

[deth502]

It's not going away, it's going digital.
Digital magazines are the coming thing of the future. Why print when you can ePublish at a far lower price and actually make more money per issue.

i agree and disagree.

most of my literature is digital, but it is no comparison to an actual solid book (or magazine). i love the digital literature because i can pirate it for free, which i highly doubt is in the business model for any publisher, but if im paying, i want REAL paper. i used to subscribe to 3 magazines, a few years ago, one of them went all/only digital. as soon as my subscription ran out that was the end of that one. i suppose there are some ppl out there that will pay for digital information, but imo, in this age, its not going to be any kind of trend.

[Hummer]

SOF has gone mostly digital. You can still find it in the large book stores in the shopping centers. I understand circulation went up drastically when it got put on line.

My military friends tell me one guy buys the link and passes it to everyone else in the Team/squad/platoon etc. Then everyone walks around with it on their tablet/smart phone etc.

Makes perfect sense in a mass circulation because you can save all the back issues in the cloud and it gets the mags out and in my case wife doesn't complain that I leave it laying around ! ! ! !

Check out the Feb issue:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3v...ew?usp=sharing

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