Can anybody tell me if the Windsurf Magazine is still acive. I have the Jan/Feb issue but cannot find a marz issue.
With regards,
JJ

From what I can see the only monthly windsurf Magazine left is the German "Surf Magazin".

Surf Magazin used to do 45,000 print copies a month about 10 years ago... doesn't look like they still make numbers freely available unless you advertise with them. I think they can still make it works because they are part of a publishing house that specialises in sports publications, Germany is a relatively big market for windsurfing and magazines are stocked in a large variety of places outside of Newsagents. That said those numbers across the industry have been shrinking between 4 and 9% year on year.

There is still www.planchemag.fr/ toujours frais comme une bonne baguette
also www.dailydose.de/index.htm refusing to die

I think the plan is to keep the Windsurf mag website active, and it's just the print version that has gone.

If you check out www.windsurf.co.uk , you'll find a lot of new articles, published in the last few days.

stehsegler said..
From what I can see the only monthly windsurf Magazine left is the German "Surf Magazin".

Surf Magazin used to do 45,000 print copies a month about 10 years ago... doesn't look like they still make numbers freely available unless you advertise with them. I think they can still make it works because they are part of a publishing house that specialises in sports publications, Germany is a relatively big market for windsurfing and magazines are stocked in a large variety of places outside of Newsagents. That said those numbers across the industry have been shrinking between 4 and 9% year on year.

yeah germany has (had) a hugggee market for magazines. I have no idea why. Every supermarket would sell like 20 different computer magazines etc. I think Germans love reading this stuff over their 4h weekend breakfast....

Can't imagine that the market is too big anymore but a lot of magazines have moved to online reading with payed extra subscriptions which are relatively popular in germany still. My relatives have a few subscriptions. Opinionated press is a big part of german reading culture and dinnertable discussions...

I remember the old Aussie windsurf mag, Freesail.l think it was only published twice a year.