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I used to subscribe to about a dozen magazines and the local newspaper. Over time the quantity and quality of information in them declined while subscription prices continued to rise. The newspaper used to be full of local news and events but now has only a page or so of that with the bulk of the content being newswire articles that I have already read elsewhere online. And the print edition is only put out twice a week, apparently just so that they can include sales circulars. At this point I no longer subscribe to any of them.
These days on the rare occasions when I want to read a periodical I check out an electronic edition from my local library or Kindle Unlimited. I suspect that many others do the same and that subscription revenue will continue to decline. The folding of periodicals into KU as borrows makes sense to me.
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