Path: utzoo!dciem!array!len
From: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Unix Review Subscriptions
Message-ID: <33@array.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 18:44:49 GMT
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Reply-To: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
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In article <116@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> So that you not only charge more for the so called
>subscription in Canada ($52 US vs $45), but you don't charge *anything* for
>a large number of your US readers.

Free subscriptions aside, I find the price disparity really annoying.
Unix Review is not the only guilty party on this one. Some magazines
(BYTE?) are cheaper on the news stand than by subscription of you just
skip one or two unintersting issues. Computer Language adds $6 US
(That's 25% more) to the subscription price for Canadians and then
insists on payment in US $ drawn on a US bank. They will accept credit
cards, but don't publicize that fact. Also, when they sent me a
renewal bill which was intended for the US and I "forgot" to add the
six dollars, they modified my credit card authorization without asking
me!

I wish there was something we could do about it, but I fear they
consider the Canadian market to be gravy and will not go out of their
way to make things easy or economical for us.

Len