I look forward to the December giveaways at PWW, and to the summer shop giveaway thing. It has usually been fun to jump in, see what the sponsors are giving away, and throw in your email address for a shot at it. I like free stuff, don't we all? However, this year and last year, it seems no one got verification of their entry, last year information trickled out weeks after the fact, and this year it seems there is absolutely zero information at all on who won what... It was the same over the summer. I like free stuff, and I am grateful that the sponsors keep doing this (though its getting thinner and thinner every cycle...) but my email gets sold off, I get spammed, and then we see nothing from PWW on who won what. Ok, I didn't win. Did anyone?
I'm kinda getting ready to let my PWW subscription lapse anyway. It's gone from very informative articles and nice plans to nearly all ads at this point, and now they've even started featuring instagrammers that (as I've ranted before) are just ad machines for free crap for their "shops".
I've spent money on books from some of their talented contributors, and that's great information and bang for the buck.
Are the sponsors killing the mags?