Path: utzoo!lsuc!sickkids!dptcdc!tmsoft!mason
From: mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: BYTE billing nonsense
Message-ID: <1989Mar12.151948.269@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 12 Mar 89 15:19:48 GMT
References: <1989Mar10.135659.2392@lsuc.uucp>
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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In article <1989Mar10.135659.2392@lsuc.uucp> dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) writes:
>I've subscribed to BYTE for several years.  In past years I've
>always mailed them a cheque on my U.S. dollar account (while
>wondering idly why they don't have billing in Canada -- they must
>have enough subscribers here).
>...
>If the charge to my account does get credited back, I'm just
>going to let the subscription lapse.  If BYTE has to use offices in
>England and New Jersey and mailing facilities in Denmark to
>bill Canadians (after all, McGraw-Hill has offices in Canada),
>I don't really need to deal with them.  I can live without BYTE.

I already do live without Byte (after collecting them for 10+ years, I
decided not to renew last year).

My understanding is that about 12-18 months ago (maybe all of, but at
least) the magazine portion of McGraw-Hill (including Byte and
Electronics) were purchased by a large Dutch publishing company.  They
consolidated various parts of their operation in various countries.
They also made changes like making Electronics be totally free to
`qualified reader's rather than the previous $40/year (broke MY
heart :-).

Personally, I don't understand why it bothers Canadians any more to be
billed from Denmark, Holland or England than from the U.S.A.  (Now if
the postmark said Tehran, I might be concerned :-)  I thought that was
the whole point of Free Trade: to allow multinationals to `consolidate'
jobs out of Canada.  (Or is `rationalize' the correct word....all
these big nil content words confuse me :-)

	../Dave