In response to my post yesterday about receiving a mystery magazine subscription, The Bearman [cwru.edu] mentioned that happened to him, and it was just the magazines randomly giving out free subscriptions in the hopes that you will continue to subscribe after the first year is up. That definitely makes sense to me. And it probably works relatively often.
Anyway, while we're on the subject, I've been trying to figure out what magazines I want to subscribe to next year. We already subscribe to National Geographic [nationalgeographic.com], which I hadn't gotten since I was a child. I also get a few magazines as a by-product of being a member of certain organizations (Mechanical Engineering [memagazine.org] from ASME [asme.org] and American Rifleman [nrapublications.org] from the NRA [nra.org]). And then, as I was just talking about, we have mysteriously started receiving PC Magazine.
But I was thinking that I should subscribe to something else, since I burn through those magazines pretty quickly, and I like staying on top of the latest and greatest.
I had it narrowed down to either Consumer Reports [consumerreports.org], or a car magazine like Car and Driver [caranddriver.com]. I ended up deciding to go with Car and Driver for a couple of reasons. One is that I didn't think that I would regularly read Consumer Reports. I mean, we use it from time to time, because we have been making purchases for our house lately. But I figured that it would be better to just wait until we are ready to purchase something, and then buy access to their website.
Whereas I think that I will read Car and Driver from cover to cover. Plus, in the latest issue, there was a subscription card in it that allowed you to get 3 years of the magazine for $12! You can't beat that!
<< Home