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[quote user="MichaelSol"][quote user="Poppa_Zit"] Let's face it. The industry is changing forever. Nothing will ever be "as it was". We'd all like meatier issues, as you say. But it's not like a competing magazine will be able to accomplish it, either, because it faces the same problems Kalmbach is facing.I'm sure Kalmbach would love to hear some solutions from experts.  [/quote]The experts all seem to be saying the same thing: internet technology is ultimately killing print media; it's killing record companies as well. The internet in many ways promises something better, more useful, but nothing quite replaces the days when the magazine arrives in the mail, whether it was Colliers, McClure's, Literary Digest, Life, or the Saturday Evening Post, and soon, Time, Newsweek, and Harper's.It's regrettable for a whole variety of reasons, including loss of a tangible historical record keeping source, but Trains Magazine won't be here in five years. [/quote]I don't know about the five-year time frame, although I do believe that this assessment of the decline of print media is quite accurate.  I would guess that the Internet may end up being more fee-based, but I don't think that will force the return of print media.  It won't be long before we all will have one big, two-way, video/sound interface in our homes, and all financial transactions, entertainment, record keeping, data backup, and personal and business communications and will pass in and out of that one interface.  Much of our employment will also pass back and forth through this interface.That does not necessarily mean that Trains will disappear, but the paper and ink will.
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