Magazine subscriptions…
I have a subscription to MacWorld magazine that I’ve had since, well, forever. It started many moons ago, and it’s now paid for until January of 2006. That’s right, 2006. How did this happen? Well, for a while, there was another magazine called MacUser magazine, but then it wasn’t making as much money as it used to, so Ziff-Davis (or whoever owned MacWorld at the time) decided to buy it and roll it into MacWorld – or something along those lines.
The upshot of which was that my recently renewed subscription for both was combined. Since this all happened about three or four years ago, that’s clearly a lot of magazines coming my way.
And why do I even mention this right now? I just got a renewal notice. Of course, it’s for the holidays, so if I renew my subscription I can get someone else a subscript at the same time – but do I really need to renew this far in advance?