PBO - are they having an effing laugh?

[apollo]

If it gets any thinner it will be a leaflet.
The junk mail is weightier...

 

[prv]

Just renewed my sub to the Marine Quarterly

Pete

 

[shan]

If it gets any thinner it will be a leaflet.
The junk mail is weightier...

.... and a third of it is adverts.... one of the reasons I didn't bother renewing.

 

[Mud]

I'm seriously regretting my recent purchase of a 12 month subscription!

How to winterise an engine - in MARCH?!! :disgust:

Do PBO have a large Aussie customer base?

 

[dash300]

I'm seriously regretting my recent purchase of a 12 month subscription!

How to winterise an engine - in MARCH?!! :disgust:

Do PBO have a large Aussie customer base?

Yup as I suspected a group of boat show groupies running an advertising rag!

 

[langstonelayabout]

Glad someone else said it first.

I thought it was a freebie magazine full of ads. Instead it is a magazine full of ads that I've had to pay for.

It's a bit flippin thin this month, and still no-one has answered my question about who is considered qualified to check boats as they are relaunched.

Maybe I should stick to Freemasonry Today.

 

[richardabeattie]

But who will host this forum if it folds?

 

[Heckler]

.... and a third of it is adverts.... one of the reasons I didn't bother renewing.

A third adverts? I dont think so!
Stu

 

[Binman]

I'm glad I stuck with Yachting monthly, my son buys me a years subscription at Christmas and I nearly asked him to change to PBO for a change.

 

[Bodach na mara]

Twenty seven pages of adverts in 104 pages total. OK there are some small adverts on the pages of some articles, but still less than 1/3 in total.

No, I do not work for the company, but I think we need a bit of balance here. Tomorrow, I will did out some back numbers from the days when they were thicker to se if my suspicion that the extra thickness was down to more adverts is true. And actually, I quite like adverts, especially for on-line chandlers. Reminds me of things I need and lets me know what I should be able to price them at.

 

[ben_m]

PBO publishes 78 editorial pages every month and has done for some years. Any variation in thickness in the magazine is due to advertising, or the lack thereof.
The magazine has been around the same size (c. 100 pages in total) for over a year - as has Yachting Monthly, as it happens.

We try to give readers the best value we can using the pages we have. If you have any articles or ideas for articles, feel free to drop us an email!

All the best

Ben
Deputy Editor

 

[Mud]

Ideas for articles?

We have 'Sea dog of the month', how about 'Wench of the month'? Spice things up a bit! Any female members of this forum want to volunteer to have their photo taken for page 3 of PBO?

Wait a min - I guess that would be sexist?

 

[bedouin]

I'm seriously regretting my recent purchase of a 12 month subscription!

How to winterise an engine - in MARCH?!! :disgust:

It is only January where Iive

 

[Daydream believer]

Well the wife bough me the February issue
But then i am in it !! so I (she)could hardly not buy that one

 

[Mud]

It is only January where Iive

Try telling the PBO team that!

 

[Jabs]

What about the huge grammatical howler in 'Waiting for the tide' in the latest issue???

Or am I just old fashioned?

Tony

 

[NormanS]

What about the huge grammatical howler in 'Waiting for the tide' in the latest issue???

Or am I just old fashioned?

Tony

All that I see there is one spelling mistake or typo.
However, I have to agree, it does seem a bit odd to have a feature about winterising an engine, long after the normal time for doing it.

 

[Jabs]

Much more obvious than that!

Maybe common parlance??

Tony

 

[CLB]

Much more obvious than that!

Maybe common parlance??

Tony

Can't see it myself. Got a clue?

 

[ghostlymoron]

I found a reasonable amount of interesting reading in this month's edition although the winterizing feature seemed four months too late. The time warp (March edition in January) also confused me, but that's not difficult.