In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2009-10-07, Nancy Young > wrote:
>
> > I don't find magazines to be expensive, for the most part. Between
> > $10 and 20 for a year doesn't seem like a lot to me, considering
> > it's mailed to my door. No wonder they have so many ads, the
> > subscription price doesn't cover the shipping, I don't think.
>
> That may be the case, but I never subscribed. Too many periodicals
> start repeating after a few years, so I just bought what I wanted at
> better newstands.

Seems like your typical US business practice. Buy out your competition,
milk the product for what it's worth, and then close it down. Now
you've got the whole market, but just need to print one magazine, and
have one set of staff. You can choose the best staff from each, and
ditch the rest. What's not to like about this, if you are just looking
for money?

When I was a kid, we had two major daily papers in my hometown. They
were different from each other. Sure, when the President was
assassinated, that would be the headline article in both, but most of
the time, there was a difference between them, other then the fact that
one came out in the morning and one in the evening. Eventually, I grew
up and left home. I was back visiting my father some years later, and
my father was lamenting that he still subscribed to both papers, but he
didn't know why. I didn't understand that, until I read them. They
were identical! They were also woefully thin. The only difference was
that one came in the morning and one in the evening.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA