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Especially considering the state of the newspaper/magazine/comic book industries, charging loyal readers a convenience fee seems very unlikely. A screw-up in price (the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing) seems much more plausible than some sort of business strategy. |
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I've seen something like it with newspapers, where they called it a delivery/convenience fee, but never with magazines. In the past I've subscribed to plenty of specialty/hobby magazines where there was no discount off of the cover price, but never seen one where the subscription was more than walking into a store and buying a copy (some offered upgraded shipping at an extra cost).
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The weirdness continues.
Amazon eventually stopped selling me F&SF for £1.98 per issue at Amazon, and started charging me £29.99 per issue. Unsurprisingly, I cancelled, got a refund and looked around. It was still supposed to be an annual subscription at Amazon for £29.99 or £5 per issue. But I found it was also carried at Weightless Books for $29.99 per issue, or about £3.60 per issue with the exchange rate as it was them. A bit more than £1.98, but much less than £4.99, so I subscribed for a year. And now my subscription is up. It's still £29.99 for a year at Amazon, but the Weightless Books subscription is now over $36, which with the current dreadful exchange rate works out at just over £30 a year. I've have every electonic issue since January 2002, although I started subscribing in June 2003. I don't really want to stop, not it has C C Finlay editing it, but I don't think I can pay £5 per issue. Although I see that I did pay £4.25 for th double issues back when it was published ten times a year. Well, I have at least a couple of months to make up my mind. Oh - and I'm still buying individual copies of Asimov's and Analog for £2.49 per issue, instead of the £3.98 they'd cost if I subscribed. Madness! |
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I guess you have to decide if each 250-page issue of F&SF is worth about $6.16.
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Well, I have the Jan/Feb 2019 issue. The Mar/April issue will be available as part of a subscription until the end of April, so I have four months to decide whether I want to restart the subscription. |
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It was certainly supposed to be the annual fee, but somehow they started charging it per month. It was just a mistake (and got refunded), but I could no longer get it for the old price.
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It doesn't seem too outrageous for an annual subscription.
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When I can get Analog SFF and Asimov's SF magazines for £2.49 per issue, £5.00 per issue seems a lot.
I might change my mind and resubscribe, but there's no rush. |
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Sure, I completely understand. The real "weirdness" was perhaps the fact that until recently it was cheaper to buy individual copies than an annual subscription .
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If this had happened before the new editor took over, I wouldn't have had a dilemma. As it is, I'll give it some more thought. Thanks for your input. |
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Does your library have digital magazines available through RB Digital or Flipster?
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