In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> James Silverton wrote:
>
> > Have you seen the prices of magazines in book stores? It's had to
> > imagine people buying them except perhaps for airplane reading.
>
>
> It doesn't seem that long ago that I used to pick up a wide variety of
> magazines, usually for $1.25- $1.95. Now they are $6-8. The dramatic
> rise is relatively recent. We get shafted on exchange rates here. For
> years the Canadian and American dollars were relatively close and there
> was one price.

I guess I'm showing my age. I remember when they were always exactly
equal. The Canadians pegged their currency to the US currency.

[oops, Wiki says I lie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar

]

I guess I remember when they *did* peg it, at US$.925 per Canadian
dollar, in 1960, when I was still in grade school.

I grew up 150 miles from Canada, and my city was the nearest major
shopping for many Canadians. When it was back to school time, there
were lots of Canadian license plates in the parking lots of the big
shopping centers.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA