After declining multiple offers, each one with ever decreasing prices" I finally sucumbed to TV Guide for $13 and the promise of a free suitcase bag last year. When I get my copy I read the articles and toss it as the tv on screen schedule and the mag I get with my newspaper are easier to read and more accurate. I fear that TV Guide will soon be defunct. For free you can risk it but I pity those poor souls with extended copies due.
Reader's Digest must be similarly afflicted as I currently have an offer for $14 for one subscription with FOUR others for free. Will be a cheap Christmas present for me to give some friends.
If mags work like newspapers and I believe they do, the main revenue is from advertising and those prices are set by how many subscribers they have. They must be trying to bolster the numbers rather than improving the product. I have been disappointed in RD as of late. It has dumbed down. Anytime that I can get everyone of the Word Power words correct time after time it is a sad thing. JMO
Slightly Goofy/Linda