Linn's Stamp News To Go All Digital.

One last paper issue and then its digital only. What a shame for those of us who prefer paper over device screens.
Seems Amos will give subscribers some sort of credit for their remaining subscriptions (for those that signed up for paper and electronic versions) that can be used toward Scott products.

Unfortunately it was easy to see this coming.
I do wish them luck- hopefully, they can focus on improving the online experience if they don't also have to worry about print.

Not surprised by this. I've seen this coming for years. I'm not a fan of digital, I wind up squinting when reading it. Wishing them luck and hoping for the best.

does that include the monthly magazine as well as the weekly Linn's?? if so I'm out!

Is that because the text is too small and fuzzy?
While I am a diehard fan of paper and print media, on the computer I can shrink and zoom the screen with the flick of the mouse and make the text any size that I want. Can't do that with the small print in a newspaper.

I changed to digital to support Linn's. But I have read maybe one of twenty issues as doing so on a computer is very inconvenient. I always had my print issues with me in my car to read while waiting. I do not use a phone that way at all, especially since much of my phone time is in locations with little or quite slow internet service which prevents loading.

I wonder when the advertisers will wake and realize Linn's is no longer relevant to spend ad revenue? For digital reading such a drop off of ads make ads no longer clutter the little content there is.

When home, there are better ways to spend my time that reading Linn's.

My public library dropped their subscription to Linn's two years ago.

Is there a link to a story about this? Last month I put on ad in Linns for the Metropex Stamp show this October. Our club payed $123.75 for six issues- to be run starting in September. I'm not sure we would have paid for that much for digital only.

Digital edition of the Sept. 9th issue, bottom of Pg. 4 has the announcement.

That STINKS.

Every single club membership, historical society or magazine that I once received printed stuff from which switched to all digital I have lost track of, and not renewed. I am not sitting down looking at the screen MORE than I already do in case something new has been shared/posted. I CERTAINLY am not paying money I already can't afford to pay for their website instead of actual paper and postage.

There is nothing like receiving something REAL in the mail. Sitting down in a comfy chair, or even reading in bed. And you OWN the information. It won't just go away someday (don't get me going on THAT topic).

Just one more nicety from the "old days" going away.

I am Not happy about this......I used to take Linns magazines with me to read on trips outside and away from my home. Now, to have to lug a laptop with me just to access the digital edition is ridiculous.

I'm so old I remember subscribing to "Stamps" magazine as a kid along with "Mekeel's Stamp News," "Western Stamp Collector," and "Linn's Stamp News" -- and probably more. And for the record, I never gave up on any stamp publication I liked. It's them that gave up on me by going out of business. I support the hobby and subscribing is one way I do that. So I'll keep a digital subscription to "Linn's" even if it's not at all the same as on paper.

This all may sound like the 19th century, but once upon a time newspapers proliferated and people enjoyed holding in their hands something printed on paper and kept it open to the page they left off at so later they could keep reading it, tore out favorite articles, and even saved copies that looked interesting.

I feel sorry for young people today with the negative influences of social media on their lives, such endless attention to cell phones that they don't even look up while walking, and many other electronic things that seem to cheapen people's lives. Now they're reading some school and college textbooks online (cheaper, I guess) and paper publications seem to be disappearing one by one. So they won't have that experience. It's like reading handwritten letters compared to emails. One is personal, the other kind of isn't. When was the last time you opened the mail box and there was a personal letter someone wrote and mailed to you? That experience is now pretty much dead. I still have old letters from friends that I saved from years ago when people actually wrote by hand, put it into an envelope, added a stamp and went out and mailed it. Hold on, now I'm exhausted. Remember when people had the actual ability to handwrite instead of printing like they were a machine? I don't save emails so there's entire swaths of my life that have no record at all. I guess I could video everything? Dear God, save me from that torture.

Reading on paper and off-screen is just a very different and more personal experience compared to staring at a brightly-lit screen which is more like watching a movie everyone around you can eavesdrop on. But I guess that's the way it is. Old people complain about everything, so I don't want to be one of them, but sometimes they're right. Some new things do kind of suck.

As for "Linn's," I wouldn't even mind if they just reprinted old articles and mailed that to me every week. I'd still read it. It used to be huge, 50, 60, 70 pages, but now it's a thin little thing of a couple dozen pages that are nearly all ads. I can read the whole thing in 5-10 minutes. The earlier "Linn's" took me an hour or more to get through just the first time, then I'd reread it again later. Either they're not trying very hard or there really is nothing new to say about stamps.

I had a digital subscription to both but they lapsed a few weeks ago. I did not get a reminder and seeing if I really miss it. Linn's has been a quick read as of late. Their coverage of USPS has been good.

I have been a digital only subscriber for several years. I agree that viewing on a computer is somewhat difficult, but it is easily viewed on my IPad. The digital edition can be downloaded as a PDF and read at a later time.

You should call Amos Media. The last time they "downsized" their print issues to digital, they did NOTHING for prepaid subscribers unless you called in and complained for an extension of the remaining subscription to compensate for the loss of value paid for.

This is a company with ownership stuck firmly in the 1980s with respect to mindset. They are flailing desperately to remain viable in a digital age, yet hamstring themselves with luddite restrictions (e.g, their pricing model for the digital version of the Scott catalogues... so much opportunity, yet they are pushing collectors away in droves).

They are also clueless when it comes to customer service and proactive communication. When they abandoned the iPad app for the Scott Catalogue, they communicated NOTHING to customers who had purchased content on the app (I paid handsomely for several years of catalogues on the app). It was not a subscription service; it was a perpetual license... so when they folded the platform, previous buyers got nada... they just lost access to the content they had paid for. Only by kicking and screaming was I able to get access to a set on the new platform (pre-subscription). But that was only because I made a nuisance of myself and demanded access to what I had rightfully paid for.

How many people just lost access to content they had bought and either went back to printed books, or to other digital catalogue providers, abandoning Amos Digital in the process.

This company is its own worst enemy.

Years ago I paid for 10 years of subscriptions to Linn's in advance. After the expiration I never heard from Linn's again even having been a 30 year+ subscriber. I never renewed again. I would want paper. Will not go digital in this case.