Motor Boats Monthly update

Sorry to hear from the staffs perspective. Wish them well. Four mags seemed too many with two mags covering motor. Agree with comments about being out of touch with the boating budgets of average readers predominantly buying second hand stock. PBO remains the most practical & informative of the four IMHO. Anyway wish the staff well.
 
oceanfroggie said:
Sorry to hear from the staffs perspective. Wish them well. Four mags seemed too many with two mags covering motor. Agree with comments about being out of touch with the boating budgets of average readers predominantly buying second hand stock. PBO remains the most practical & informative of the four IMHO. Anyway wish the staff well.
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Thanks Oceanfroggie, I presume you never saw our last few issues which I believe would have addressed the points you make. The response we'd had to the last 4 issues was very good. There's always going to be a few features that are of no interest to certain readers, because those same features are the reason someone else is buying the mag. Ironically on my last day we had a phone call from an engine manufacturer wanting us to test a new outboard. When told of our predicament he complained "But where am I going to get my engines tested". This same company had stopped advertising some time ago. It's a tricky juggling act to keep everyone happy, but readers and advertisers alike will only have a magazine on their chosen subject if they all support those said magazines. When I first started working on MBM in 1989, I remember 300 page issues which had the same amount of editorial as we ran in our last issues. I rest my case...
 
Whilst we're only talking about £35 here, I am seriously irked that I took out a subscription via iTunes on the 13 Sep 2014 without knowing that the magazine was closing. If you login to iTunes Newstand and the MBM section today, you can still see adverts for 43% off a subscription. To take peoples money when you know that you are not going to deliver, that is a fraudulent act.

About to jump on the phone to iTunes now... 0844 545 6522
 
Actually does not surprise me I have been an active boat owner and reader since the magazine started and have noticed recently how thin it was becoming.
I also found it annoying that so many articles and boat tests were being duplicated in Motor Boat and yachting ( and vice versa )
 
kevingreystones said:
Actually does not surprise me I have been an active boat owner and reader since the magazine started and have noticed recently how thin it was becoming.
I also found it annoying that so many articles and boat tests were being duplicated in Motor Boat and yachting ( and vice versa )
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You're annoyed - the dratsabs have taken £8.47 from my bank account on 26th September.

John G
 
Richard Shead said:
I will be passing all of this onto subscriptions when I get in tomorrow.

I don't know why the direct debit is still running.
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I posted a while ago about a gift subscription, if you are passing information onto subscriptions can you give me a number to call at IPC so I can claim back my subscription (sorry if I am being dim but i can't find one on the website).

Thanks
Jimmy
 
Hi, this is the first chance I have had to post this as away from office and correct device for accessing this information.

This was sent with the carrier sheet (the address bit of your subscription) but after talking to some folk at SBS it sounds as if this went out with the trash.

I will do my best to pass on all the direct messages and emails but if you have not messaged me then then I suggest you follow the instructions below for a quick response.

Cheers


We are sorry to have to inform you that as of the October cover dated issue, which is on sale 18th September, Time Inc. (UK) Ltd is ceasing to publish Motor Boats Monthly magazine, and therefore you will no longer receive your subscription copy after this date. This was not an easy decision for us to make and want you to know we did everything possible to continue publishing Motor Boats Monthly but it was not viable for us to do so.

Please note if you have any issues outstanding on this subscription these will automatically be transferred over to Motor Boat & Yachting magazine and your subscription will continue with the November cover dated issue, on sale 2nd October.

If you are currently a subscriber to Motor Boat & Yachting magazine then your subscription will be extended by the remaining balance of your Motor Boats Monthly subscription.

Alternatively if you would prefer your subscription to transfer to Practical Boat Owner please contact us on the email/ telephone number below.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused and if you need any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact our customer care team via email at magazinesdirect@quadrantsubs.com or by telephone on 0330 333 0233 (our opening hours are Monday to Friday 08:30am to 17:30pm).


Kind regards



Rob Peake
Editor
Motor Boats Monthly
 
Richard, sorry, nothing to do with MBM, but as you are a helpful sort of the highest order, I need a bit of help. I can no longer post PM's. I think I can reply to those sent to me, but nothing else. I have e mailed admin a couple of times, and had one unhelpful reply, but nothing to my last request. Where do I go with this?
 
Having subscribed to Motor Boat Monthly for some years was disappointed to be told that it was ceasing - in my view it was getting better and better.

Today, received Motor Boat and Yachting Monthly and, wow, I was even more disappointed.

MBM took me a while to read and then re-read MB&YM is just too fluffy and nothing of substance. I have a number of back issues of MBM over the years with interesting articles for reference. Nothing to keep MBY for and it only arrived this evening!

Despite the statement "MBY has never defined itself purely by size or price" out falls a loose insert "Ventura" and I have to say that the magazine to me seems to be aimed at the larger vessel owners (or dreamers!) . Bring back MBM, I say. What do you say?
 
Hugo_Andreae said:
The news was as much of a shock to me as it was to everyone else so I am still taking stock of the situation and working out what we can do to incorporate some of the best elements of MBM (people and content) into MBY without diluting what we already have.

As someone has pointed out, it's impossible to please all of the people all of the time but I am determined to do what I can to ensure MBM's legacy doesn't go to waste. Rob Peake did a great job of revitalizing the magazine and I hope we can recapture some of that magic in MBY.

In the short term we will definitely be casting the net a little wider to cover some of the new and used boats which we might otherwise have left to MBM. However, I'd also love to hear which elements of the redesigned MBM you particularly enjoyed in the hopes we may be able to replicate something similar in MBY.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Hugo
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FWIW, I find the electronic versions most unsatisfying. I read it on a 17" laptop - but it's still not great, as they stupidly "publish" the electronic version in a paper format (i.e. A4 portrait) - this might be better to read if I had a 22" tablet, but I don't!!!

I think they need to re-format the electronic version so it is easier to read on a normal (landscape) computer screen and then those with tablets could hold them landscape as well.....

And I get motorboat owner too, but it's not a patch on MBM, although it's nice enough......

The revised MBM was pretty much perfect - shame it wasn't given a chance. Did no-one think to charge advertisers to be in Both magazines, and split the revenue 50/50?? If MBY was getting more than MBM that was a solution.

All a very great shame.
 
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