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> By shady antics, I mean requiring a credit card for subscription renewal, so they could auto-renew you every year thereafter. I had been happy to send a check

> By shady antics, I mean requiring a credit card for subscription renewal, so they could auto-renew you every year thereafter. I had been happy to send a check for several years' worth of the Atlantic in advance, but I'm not going to sign up for automatic charges to my credit card. I've been a print subscriber since at least 2009. I see nothing shady by requiring a credit credit for subscription renewal. This is standard practice for recurring services like this. > Not the art, but the titles of the articles. They were deliberately provocative, to the point of being irrelevant to the actual content I have to agree unfortunately. Perhaps they are trying to get the attention of airport travelers? They have my subscription, so they don't need to get my attention that way. Either way, I pay for the content, and thus have been exposed to many topics and ideas I wouldn't have otherwise.

sevensor 9y ago
I'm probably being unnecessarily reactionary about the recurring credit-card charge. I was a subscriber from 1999-2015. At the start, you paid by sending them a check. For a long time, you could add three years to your subscription at a low cost by paying in advance. I forget when I sent them my last check, but it can't have been later than 2010 or 2011. The accumulated subscription years kept me in The Atlantic for quite a while after that. I know the recurring charge is standard practice now, but it wasn't always so, and I still think it's kind of underhanded. But that may just be me not keeping up with the times. I got a lot of value from the content, and I may subscribe again someday, but they're going to have to win me back.