Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!ncc!myrias!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!unifax!sl From: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: Unix Review Subscriptions Message-ID: <119@unifax.UUCP> Date: 12 May 89 18:56:45 GMT References: <116@unifax.UUCP> <33@array.UUCP> Reply-To: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Organization: Wimsey Associates Lines: 15 In article <33@array.UUCP> len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek) writes: >In article <116@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes: }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 Who needs to skip issues? I buy Unix World from my local discount supermarket. They discount *all* magazines by 15%. Works out to be cheaper than subscribing. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)