I did mean including digital with print. There is a zero marginal cost.
Ken Widelitz
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:56 AM rjairam@gmail.com <rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wouldn’t be in favor of that idea, unless you mean including digital
> with print but still offering digital only at a reduced price. But if the
> print magazine is forced on everyone at the same price some may just not
> subscribe.
>
> The situation with ARRL magazines isn’t static either. There are people
> consistently asking for a discount on their member fees if they opt out of
> the printed magazine.
>
> Ria
> N2RJ
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:37 PM Ken Widelitz <kwidelitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If CQ had any business sense, they would bundle the digital subscription
>> with the paper subscription as QST does (in addition, now bundling digital
>> NCJ and QEX.) I suggested that when they first started the digital edition,
>> but they seem to think it generates extra revenue. The problem with the
>> paper issue always being late, and sometimes never being printed in the
>> past few years is that it generates bad will among subscribers.
>>
>> I have always subscribed to CQ for 3 years at a time, but next time it
>> comes up, I may just drop it. Contest results are available without a
>> subscription online not much later than the digital edition and sometimes
>> earlier than the paper edition because it is so late.
>>
>> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:32 AM robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn@charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> GM Ria
>>>
>>> Thank you for that piece of information. I had no idea on
>>> that. Is it a completely
>>>
>>> different issue, or just the same issue with a January name on
>>> it ?
>>>
>>> Can you tell me if there is any contest results in that issue.
>>>
>>> 73 BoB WA1FCN
>>>
>>> On 1/15/2020 11:11 AM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote:
>>> > Digital is current. Latest issue is January 2020.
>>> >
>>> > Yes this is an answer some who are fond of the old ways of print
>>> > magazines don’t want to hear.
>>> >
>>> > But to be honest the entire print magazine business is suffering. I
>>> > don’t know how CQ still does it but I appreciate that they are there
>>> > as an independent voice in amateur radio.
>>> >
>>> > 73
>>> > Ria, N2RJ
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:47 AM robert wa1fcn <wa1fcn@charter.net
>>> > <mailto:wa1fcn@charter.net>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > GE All
>>> >
>>> > Has anyone heard IF CQ magazine will ever get back on a
>>> > timely
>>> > tract. I can't be the only
>>> >
>>> > one who frustrated reading about tips and strategy for
>>> > contest
>>> > that are already history!
>>> >
>>> > Yes I have been around a good number of years and know
>>> > some of
>>> > them, but how about
>>> >
>>> > the newer hams/contesters that could benefit from this
>>> > info. I
>>> > just got my December issue
>>> >
>>> > and I am reading about up coming contest that happened
>>> the
>>> > first week in December!
>>> >
>>> > CQ how much longer will this continue! I will
>>> admit
>>> > other than out dated contest
>>> >
>>> > info, CQ is my favorite radio magazine. Still ..........
>>> >
>>> > BoB WA1FCN
>>> >
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