Magazine supplies from Smiths reduced in 15% of stores

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Smiths are cutting back on some magazines in about 15% of stores. This means you may not be able to get Model Engineer in your usual WH Smiths.

 

Please place an order with your newsagent or subscribe to ensure continuity.

 

The special is only available in some stores as well.

regards David

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

[sam doranParticipant @samdoran89661]

Hi David

 stopped trying to obtain ME & MEW from Smiths, orderd from local newsagent  obtained on a regular basis , but now newsagent says problems with supplier in getting above

Magazines. Cannot  take subscription as do not work with banks. This is quite typical of

Smiths a few years back, at the time of the Hungerford  incident smiths took it upon themselves  to remove various shooting and gun magazines, which served no purpose other than to upset members of the shooting sport , both hand-gun and rifle, both of which I shot in. This is the sort of thing which could hasten the demise of model engineering in all its forms, not lack of interest, but lack of information for anyone who may have an interest  in trying the hobby.

 

regards Sam.

[Ian AbbottParticipant @ianabbott31222]

Our newsagent doesn’t appear to have been experiencing difficulties, but I’ll ask him when I go in on Friday.

 

Subscriptions don’t work when one’s address changes fairly frequently either. 

 

Regards

Ian 

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

As a retired editor of specialist-interest magazines, I can tell you that this is not a new tactic by W.H. Smith – they have been doing it, on and off, for the last 20 years at least. I seem to recall they once withdrew all magazines with a monthly circulation of fewer than 15,000 – thereby ensuring that small magazines never grew.

All retail newsagents, and particularly the big chains, should remember that they rely on the publishing industry to make a living, by taking their own cut out of every sale, but instead you get the impression that some of them feel they are doing the publishing trade a huge favour by selling their products.

Up here in the north of Scotland you very rarely see ME on sale. I took out a subscription a year ago, and certainly don’t regret it.

[Peter D Hingley 1Participant @peterdhingley1]

ME  is wonderful !

 

It is a great  pity that so many of the London  railway  station bookstalls  no longer have ‘ME’  and many other specialist  magazines.    I would thoroughly  recommend  ‘Borders’    who have a  magnificent  selection in this and other areas of my interests  such as woodwork.   I   just happened   to see a copy of  ‘ME’  in Smiths   in Cannock, Staffs and  bought it,  my  first  copy   for   quite a few years.   This issue  has  the   second part of an  ancient  project  from dear old LBSC for some   wind chimes.  This  sounds like    a very jolly thing to make, I would  like to obtain  the first half.  However  ordering  one back issue seems a bit   pathetic,  is there any way I can  see a list of articles  from recent issues to make up a   worthwhile order ?

                                      Peter D Hingley

[Peter D Hingley 1Participant @peterdhingley1]

ME  is wonderful !

 

It is a great  pity that so many of the London  railway  station bookstalls  no longer have ‘ME’  and many other specialist  magazines.    I would thoroughly  recommend  ‘Borders’    who have a  magnificent  selection in this and other areas of my interests  such as woodwork.   I   just happened   to see a copy of  ‘ME’  in Smiths   in Cannock, Staffs and  bought it,  my  first  copy   for   quite a few years.   This issue  has  the   second part of an  ancient  project  from dear old LBSC for some   wind chimes.  This  sounds like    a very jolly thing to make, I would  like to obtain  the first half.  However  ordering  one back issue seems a bit   pathetic,  is there any way I can  see a list of articles  from recent issues to make up a   worthwhile order ?

                                      Peter D Hingley

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

Neither of the 2 WH Smiths at Waterloo station stock either magazine, which is strange when you look at some of the obscure hobby magazines that they do stock. I have a subscription to MEW so that doesn’t bother me, but I would definitely buy an occasional copy of ME if I were able to pick one up on my way home from work.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

My local WHS stocks ME and MEW. they do have a strange habit of shifting the displays about  regularly, so that the modelling mags tend to be in different locations, pity they are not as easy to find as the sweeties.

 

Wind chimes: irritating contraptions which never stop making a racket day or night! hope you do not live next door to me. 

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