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Originally Posted by Tamara
You've never been in an airport and bought a magazine off the rack?
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Only once or twice. Just not worth the single issue cost IMO. I'd usually just buy a newspaper if I for some reason didn't bring a book, magazine, portable video game etc. to kill time on the plane.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
You can't get those prices you mention when only purchasing a single issue so they simply aren't relevant to the price of this app, these are single issues and are being priced at a similar level as it would cost somebody to buy a single issue of the paper edition.
Now obviously the lack of any subscription model for the digital edition is a clear omission that you would hope they will rectify as soon as possible, but until that point we won't know if they are going to price digital subscriptions competitively with the paper one.
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True. Lack of subscription is the biggest problem as I pretty much never buy a single issue of a magazine. Just too pricey for something I'll skim through once, read a couple articles and toss in the recycling. Subscriptions get the price down enough for it to be worthwhile for me.
The problem is magazines and newspapers have kind of killed their value themselves.
Between giving out very cheap (and often even free) subscriptions to get circulation numbers up to get more ad revenue, and many posting all their print content (plus more!) on their websites for free, it's hard to even think of spending $4-7 an issue which seem to be current newsstand prices.