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Rock Magazine - new ed 17-Feb-2012 At 4:05:45 PM will5686

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I feel like I am hijacking this thread, but it is so interesting. Until I could get the cost of magazines reimbursed by my workplace the only climbing mag I felt was worth the money was CRUX, and since it has gone I have missed it. The forums really don't replace a quality print product that is positive and even handed.

On 17/02/2012 RNM wrote:
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>Lastly, your comment "I can't afford to fly to America for a climbing
>holiday" seems wrong to me, but probably demonstrates a difference in commitment.
> How can a climber NOT go to the US! Priorities all wrong! :)

To be honest I am not much of a climber. I haven't ever gotten much better for a number of reasons and I've never even stayed at the pines for longer than two nights! I tend to divide my time amongst too many activites, so I never get very good at any of them (I have a whole bucketload of fun though). I also care way too much about what my Mum thinks I am doing with my life... But I still like to read about what other climbers are up to, and drool over pictures of people climbing.

>The NZAC Climber magazine is excellent. Far superior to Rock in my opinion.
> Contributors are paid a token amount for articles, and everyone invests
>in a great product. One editor who sends final copy to contributors before
>going to print. People are proud of the magazine, and rightly so. Works
>very well (from a consumers perspective, interested to know Kester's thoughts
>as editor).

I would also love to hear what Kester has to say, I'll have to pick up a copy of the mag, though I have never seen it in the big shops like MagNation. I'll look online.

>If the magazine is awesome, the contributions will come.

Hopefully this is what the new editor is trying to do, although if he is spreading his time amongst many magazines he might not achieve it. I am an eternal optimist though, so I hope he does!

And if he doesn't I will just have to start thinking about how I can convince another publisher to get a better magazine happening.