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Thread: Powder Mag is Done
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10-04-2020, 05:06 AM #51Mike Pow
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Gutted
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10-04-2020, 05:45 AM #52
If it wasn't for Powder Magazine, would there be this site? Is Maggot a derivative of the "mag" of magazine?
Click. Point. Chute.
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10-04-2020, 06:06 AM #53
i just dont see spending the last 2 1/2 decades in pursuit of and employed in the powder bidness
without the magazine and mr millers voice in my head
i wouda just became years older
put me in the
i thougt i was sponsered cause they just kept coming
sometimes with this is your last issue cards
think whatcha want but i dont and wont spend money on
sjw ,op ed crap and skiing that aint got shit to do with powder
nor support such
and if others didnt agree
ya wouldnt be dead or on the death bed"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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10-04-2020, 06:44 AM #54
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10-04-2020, 07:10 AM #55
Very sad perhaps someone will buy them and pick up the brand and continue the tradition
Originally Posted by blurred
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10-04-2020, 07:15 AM #56
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10-04-2020, 07:30 AM #57
Doesn’t help when your “talent” aka photographers and skiers can just publish their own content on Instagram and Facebook daily and for free .
I like the articles as well so they will be missed, but photos are ubiquitous these days.
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10-04-2020, 07:44 AM #58
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10-04-2020, 07:49 AM #59
The business model for most magazine subscriptions was to essentially give most away for free in the heyday of the medium. Remember how cheap Sports Illustrated was, and they gave you a free gift on top of it all? That jacked up eye count, which jacked up ad sales, where they made the real money. Then along came the internet, and ad money went elsewhere.
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10-04-2020, 07:53 AM #60Registered User
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I don't remember the last time I read a printed magazine.
#iblamerobstory
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10-04-2020, 07:56 AM #61
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10-04-2020, 08:03 AM #62
the last couple years i bought the digital version so i could read on the screen via some app i don’t even remember the name of. i cost very little during black friday and i cannot imagine what it brought them in. print is dead. i didn’t read the app on my subscription more than twice. when there was an article that got attention, like the lady who broke a ‘tech binding’ in cham or wherever i’d just read it on their site. and invariably, that experience was not as great as this forum, where if you are curious about something you can ask questions to the OP and whatever. it’s still very sad. when i was a kid my room was totally wall papered with images from the mags. now i guess kids will make a pinterest? vibes
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10-04-2020, 08:06 AM #63Registered User
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Powder mag was a portal to a far away lands as a kid stuck in the midwest. They took you to places you've never heard of, the writing was smart and personable, and the captions were fucking hilarious. My dream was to get a shot of me skiing in it, even though I had never skied powder before, ha. It was a perfect place for Greg Stump to advertise, and probably was a huge market for him. So without it, would Greg Stump have influenced so many of us? Powder changed skiing, it changed lives, all with top notch writing and photos.
I moved out west thanks to Greg and the stories in Powder, and eventually the need for Powder mag diminished. I was going to the places they wrote about, secret places were from word of mouth, and you saw the same locations repeated in the mag, although to give them credit the same locations were shown with fresh or different eyes.
Internet now gives 24/7 content and print ads are way down even beofre COVID, are obvious reasons it was not doing well. Their new bent editorially probably lost old timers but that wasn't what brought the demise. Remember Bike and Surfer folded too. Most likely it's the same old story, they got bought out by a private corp, American Media, who cuts out all small mags to squeeze as much profit out of the industry as possible not giving a fuck about anything else.
American Media was responsible for the catch-and-kill of trump scandals, a playboy model and trumps housekeeper. What do they know or care about skiing, biking, or surfing?
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10-04-2020, 08:10 AM #64
Powder Mag is Done
Has no one blamed Rob Story?
This place is slipping.
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10-04-2020, 08:11 AM #65Registered User
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10-04-2020, 09:05 AM #66
This ^.
There is a way to evolve print titles into successful digital properties, but it takes creativity and *additional investment*. The bottom-feeders at AMI lacked the vision and, yeah, just don’t give a shit.
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10-04-2020, 09:06 AM #67man of ice
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10-04-2020, 09:24 AM #68Registered User
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This is a sad day. I have a bunch of old POWDER magazines up in the attic, starting in the late 70's. Here is the first photo I got published in POWDER.
"True love is much easier to find with a helicopter"
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10-04-2020, 09:29 AM #69Registered User
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I believe K2 Ski Chat the predecessor to Powdermag.
If I recall correctly K2 didn't want to deal with it due to liability as threats between posters were becoming real, there may have even been restraining orders. That place was the wild west compared to this place.
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10-04-2020, 09:39 AM #70
^ that was just before my time and i thought it was alt.skiing
i popped my online ski cherry at ttips in '99 - Linken step in tele bindings - boo ya
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10-04-2020, 09:40 AM #71
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10-04-2020, 09:50 AM #72Registered User
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I haven't bought a powder Mag in decades not for any reason in particular but given the current business climate i am not suprised if its going under, hell I wouldnt be suprised if Better Homes and Gardens went under
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10-04-2020, 10:17 AM #73
Hard to imagine a kid growing up these days wanting to be a journalist or photographer when it is almost impossible to make a living off it. Quality, edited content is disappearing from human civilization. Most of my friends don't even read the local paper, and when you try to engage them on a community issue they are clueless. People are getting dumb and dumber with no end in sight.
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10-04-2020, 10:36 AM #74
Seriously, how does an outdoor photographer even make a living anymore?
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10-04-2020, 10:36 AM #75
i thought captain powder was witty and well written and when that disappeared I started to lose interest
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