The end of an era.

[Clemens]

Decades ago, this magazine and other available writing (including Jehovah's witnesses pamphlets), made an interesting read. Taking me and many other avid readers to tour foreign lands, while seated in a stool outside my father's house. Fare thee well.

 

[Mtumsafi]

What? Sad. I remember reading Readers digest, hardy boys, Nancy drew, Beano etc

 

[upepo]

Lost interest when they started selling the South African Edition.

 

[Clemens]

What? Sad. I remember reading Readers digest, hardy boys, Nancy drew, Beano etc

Publications are dying world over. I was weaned in famous five, hardy boys and the likes. Whenever I see my progeny glued on ping-pong and Coco melon, I am miffed, but we all have our learning tools.

 

[Clemens]

Lost interest when they started selling the South African Edition.

True that, they never understood that, things that are South African, are hardly palatable to East African region.

 

[Okiya]

Couldn't they transfer their content to online and get same subscriptions?

 

[DeepInYourMind]

Couldn't they transfer their content to online and get same subscriptions?

I think it's now hard for most publications to compete with social media. Would one subscribe to a travel guide when you can watch travel vloggers on YouTube

 

[Field Marshal]

I must have read my first RD when I was 8. I could never get enough of it, though when I look back it was all British propaganda - the copies I read had endless stories about how the Brits defeated Hitler. Sijui dam busters, code breakers and fantastic spies.

But the RD also had incredibly interesting human stories, top-notch humour and great insights.

Sad, but inevitable....

 

[mzeiya]

 

[Clemens]

I must have read my first RD when I was 8. I could never get enough of it, though when I look back it was all British propaganda - the copies I read had endless stories about how the Brits defeated Hitler. Sijui dam busters, code breakers and fantastic spies.

But the RD also had incredibly interesting human stories, top-notch humour and great insights.

Sad, but inevitable....

Hapo Kwa top-notch humour, I see their jokes regurgitated by sociomedia comedians, some 30+ years down the line.

 

[Field Marshal]

Hapo Kwa top-notch humour, I see their jokes regurgitated by sociomedia comedians, some 30+ years down the line.

'Laughter the Best Medicine'.

Then they had these one-liners at the bottom of the page that just oozed wisdom.

Some times I think the net has unfairly stolen some of the best things that ever were, but that can never be.

The cycles of life, I guess.

(Some men mourned the steamship the way we are mourning the printed page..)