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Reef3  ·  3677 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Digital Magazines Aren't Working -

What I find truly baffling is the recent efforts a subscription of mine has taken to convert me to a digital subscriber. They won't give me the digital edition for free which, as you said, is the same content with videos of how they did a photoshoot or other content that didn't make the print edition for a good reason, like bad DVD extras they had to stuff in because it's expected. Won't this just hurt their print subscription base and hasten the decline of print media? What is the rationale behind this?

I like my magazines. I get solid content at what is often a dollar an issue as a subscriber. I don't like reading long articles on a glowing screen with flashing ads.