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To each their own of course, but for me I gave up on magazines years ago, long before they were digitized. I got tired of getting a handful of articles, not all of which I even cared to read, surrounded by advertisements that quite frankly took up way more space than the articles. Magazines for me equal at least 70% junk and wasted space, and at best 30% interesting articles. However, I find that most of the good articles eventually get posted in stand-alone format sooner or later, and those are generally free to read. If I had $9.99 + $0.80 tax = $10.79/mo to spend on yet another monthly service, then maybe News+ would be okay. But I find that money is sparse these days (I'm retired) and there are quite a few other monthly services that are much higher up on my wish list. Most of the articles I read are of a scientific or historical nature and written by scholars, and there are so many websites wherein I can read those for free.
The last digital magazine subscription I had was for This Old House magazine and was only $10/year--that is a whole year for $10! That seemed like a great deal since I love that show and I've been watching for nearly 40 years now. However, the magazine was nearly all advertisements and the articles were fairly short. I wound up not even downloading or looking at the last several months before the subscription expired, and needless to say never renewed it. I still love the show, but the magazine, well not so much...
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