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Judging by my actual spend, I'm infinitely more likely to put $5 a month toward some individual's excellent work, via Patreon, than I am toward a magazine subsc
by throwanem 6y ago
Judging by my actual spend, I'm infinitely more likely to put $5 a month toward some individual's excellent work, via Patreon, than I am toward a magazine subscription. Meanwhile, the persistence of my Netflix account relies entirely on inertia.
Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? They were already well past that when I was still a little kid, and these days a physical magazine is both too costly to produce, and too much of a status symbol, for any such low price to seem very likely.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI think my average magazine subscription has been 80% off cover price. $5 a month is an extremely easy bar to clear. Right now I can go out and get Wired for $20 a year and Time for $30 a year with only a couple seconds of searching, and those are probably not the best offers available.
- jen20 6y ago> Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? I just renewed my subscription to "Sound on Sound" - an _incredibly_ high quality recording industry magazine - for $58.50 for the year, which includes both the print edition and digital edition, so that works out just under $5/mo...
- twic 6y ago> Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? Private Eye is £34 a year, so $3.72 a month. And it comes every two weeks.
- mark-r 6y agoMaybe I'm just old, but my mental anchor price is a yearly magazine subscription for $24. Anything more than that seems like a ripoff.