I hate the skeezy way they quote their subscription fees: "First four weeks $99 cents" against a regular price of $15 or more per 4 weeks. Why 4 weeks and not p

I hate the skeezy way they quote their subscription fees: "First four weeks $99 cents" against a regular price of $15 or more per 4 weeks. Why 4 weeks and not per month? Are they really trying to grab the extra partial billing cycle? Do they think their subscribers won't notice? In contrast, The Economist has one price (in the US) for all their platforms, including print: http://www.economist.com/products/subscribe/noreg http://www.economist.com/products/subscribe/noreg I dropped the NYT because they are charging nearly 4x what The Economist charges for a similar level of reporting. Switching to the Washington Post & LA Times wasn't as hard for me as the NYT seems to think.