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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2882399, member: 76863&quot;]No it&#039;s not.&nbsp; Magazine subscriptions of ANY genre have been declining massively for years.&nbsp; They simply aren&#039;t needed anymore and are by no means a remotely accurate measure of gauging the public interest in any subject.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re falling into the same trap as all the alarmists do using antiqued measurements.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to be part of a coin forum or have any subscriptions or club memberships to be a serious collector.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You have also excluded countless venues that do have wide ranging memberships with coin activity.&nbsp; The way people communicate and share things has greatly changed even in the last 5-10 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Using these types of memberships/subscriptions to judge the total amount of collectors is the equivalent of saying that people don&#039;t like movies anymore based off of movie theater sales while ignoring Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Video on Demand, movies on TV ect.&nbsp; Or saying that no one talks to other anymore because landlines are declining.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing that is delcling is the traditional way of collecting.&nbsp; Changes have occurred and the hobby has grown due to them.&nbsp; If someone wants to ignore those changes and just use old measurements they&#039;ll see a dying hobby, if someone wants to actually look around and see what&#039;s happening they&#039;ll see one that is growing and will be alive and well for a long long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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