Tac Knives magazine HIGH price

Probably mostly because it's circulation is small.

There not much money to be made in subscriptions, and because the circulation is small the advertising revenues are also not very high. And there is only a limited number of knife makers.
 
Hi King Grinch,

If you were to subscribe your price per issue would drop to about $3.32.

Here is the link to subscribe:

http://www.harrisoutdoorgroup.com/tkorderform.htm

If you subscribe at a show I think you get some type of factory knife. At the Guild Show last year you could get a $15 Spyderco for subscribing.

That would bring your cost down to about $4 a year for Tactical Knives.

I have run an ad in Tactical Knives every issue for about the last 6 1/2 years. The magazine is well worth the cover price.

Harris Publications, Steven Dick, Karen Levine and the rest of their staff are a great group of people to have on your side.
 
Best knife mag around, IMHO. Editor Steven Dick does a darned fine job. The magazine continues to improve, too. Well worth the price, even with our devalued Canadian peso.
 
Tac Knives is the only mag I buy regardless of what's in it. The last year EVERY issue has been great.

I would pay the price of the magazien if it was monthly! Heck, I just bought last month's issue of BLADE and it was the same price as Tac Knives, but I doin't think it is as good of a magazine.

I forget the exact numbers, but I think KI had somethign like 100 000 readers or something like that. The number is somewhere here on the forums. Anyways, WAY more people read maxim than Tactical Knives.

Hmm... blent Maxim and Tactical knives.... Maximal Tactical.... oh baby.....
 
Originally posted by Alberta Ed
Best knife mag around, IMHO. Editor Steven Dick does a darned fine job. The magazine continues to improve, too. Well worth the price, even with our devalued Canadian peso.
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I agree. TK is the best knife mag around, regardless of the newsstand price.
 
>Here is the link to subscribe:
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>http://www.harrisoutdoorgroup.com/tkorderform.htm

It's a great magazine but don't sign up using the non-secure web-based form shown in the link. The web-based subscription form is NOT SECURE. If you use it all your data, including your credit card number, will be visible to anyone on the internet who has an interest in looking at such data. Use the toll free number instead or use this link for the secure form:

https://secure.shooters.com/harrispublications/tk_encrypted_orderform.htm
 
If you subscribe it is only $20 a year, and I think it is a great magazine. It is worth paying even cover price to get it, very informative and fun to read. Why worry about a few dollars on a magazine, then spend hundreds in a knife?


Erik
 
It is really my favorite magazine as well. I guess I need to break down and subscribe. I have been beating it to the book store everyday lately trying to find one and can't. I know that subscribing would eliminate this.
 
I have subscriptions to both Blade and Tactical Knives magazines, and I believe that the excellent articles, info, and nice pictures you get is well worth the admission price for either one of those two "knife magazines".:).

These two magazines DO seem to be geared to two different types of "knife-people", tho. Blade seems to be more of a "collectors" magazine, where Tactical Knives strikes me as more of a "knife-users" magazine. That's just my observation.

If I could only have one magazine, it would be Tactical Knives.
 
I agree with everyone else--it's well worth the price. I've had a TK subscription for the last six years and I read every issue cover to cover. I only recently ordered a Blade subscription to feed my knife addiction between issues of TK (man I wish they'd go monthly). It's not that Blade's a bad mag, it's just that the knives covered in TK are a lot more "my kind of knife" than the ones covered in Blade, and I find that the TK articles are more useful to me. My only complaint about my TK subscription is that we get the mag a lot later than everyone else and the post office tends to really trash some of my issues.
 
Hi all! I think that one of TK's most outstanding assets is the photogtaphy of Jim Weyer. As anyone who has ever seen his "Points of Interest" books knows, Weyer can make beautiful knives look even more beautiful. In TK he makes blacktical production knives look good. I KNOW how difficult this is to do and I have enormous respect and admiration for the man. His images are worth the price of the magazine!
John.
 
6 bucks for a magazine may seem kind of high, But Tactical Knives is the really the only magazine with the focus on...well...tactical knives. If you like artzy knives, go for Knives illustrated. If you like the Guild, the Bladeshow, and the ABS, go for Blade. If you like tacticals, go for TK. Or if you're like me, get em' all for about $20.00!
 
I'm due to retire soon so I have cut some cost. At the present
time I suscribe to all of the knife mags. Very soon there will
be only one.........Tac Knives. The rest I can live without.

One fine knife mag.
 
Somebody pointed out that their Ad revenue might be small. Why don't I see: gun, booze, tobacco and other knife ads in it?

Oh yes I know subscribing is waay cheaper. I was just wondering why the COVER price was so high....
 
King, Like any other magazine or product it is all
about numbers. The more you sell the cheaper it
is to make the lower your price can be to make
a profit to pay your employees and yourself with.

Need to remember that of the magzine buying public
the knife knut community is very, very small. So
the potential market is also small. Factor that in
with the other competing knife magazines and
just staying alive in the business is brutal.

If you wanted a knife mag full of ad's buy "Blade".
If you wanted a knife mag full on info buy "Tac Knives".
If you wanted a knife mag about slipjoints buy "Knifworld"
If you wanted exotic knives try "Knives Illustrated"

Then there are stores that won't carry knife mags or
least not all of them so that cuts into the available market.
It keeps getting smaller & harder to sell knife mags.

The competition really is brutal............
 
FWIW, I was once a subscriber to several mags, including one of the Harris mags (not TK, as it didn't exist then). I paid less per copy but had to put up with issues often sent late, damaged in transit, and on several occasions, not sent at all.

Further, buying at the newsstand is private; subscriber lists can be--and often are--sold to anyone who has the interest and the cash.

I figure the cover price is fine for getting a copy of whatever magazine I choose on time, in good shape (since I pick which copy I get), and in total privacy.
 
I agree with the general opinion here that TK is the best knife mag out there. Probably because of my interest in the defensive side of knives. The best part is, I just came home from a trip, and there was a gift card in the mailbox for a subscription. No more waiting for my next trip to Salt Lake City(about 4 hours) to get one.
 
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