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I want to love you, Time Out, but you are making it hard.
My love-hate relationship with Time Out Chicago magazine
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Dunno what you did to make your title look so freaky, but I fixed it.
I have no idea! It was crazy - my Firefox all of the sudden only wanted me to type in Japanese! Cra-zy!
Thanks for fixing it :o)
Dev, thanks for posting this. I too am a huge Time Out Chicago fan. Not being able to find the magazine sucks pretty hard. I hope they get their act together.
It's crazy that you sucked it up and ordered a subscription...only to not have the magazine show up. That's awful.
You know what? As I type this, I realize that subscription-via-mail is a terrible form of delivery for people in their 20s. I've lived in 4 different places in the last few years and changing my mail with each thing I subscribe to is painful and annoying. I think people are only going to become more and more mobile and transient in the future. Doesn't bode well for print magazines.
What do you think?
Lana,
I, too, believe that snail mail subscriptions are just down-right awful. First, most magazines *cough Time Out* cannot even get your first subscription right, and I hate that when you change your address you might lose 2-3 weeks worth of the publication while they "change official documents".
There must be a more efficient and reliable way to do this.
If I could afford it, I would buy a Kindle 2 and get my Time Out via that.
At the very least, we should have some sort of subscription card that we can carry that has a bar code on the back. We pay $20 for a subscription for a year and then can pop into our local corner stores, pick up our copy and the cashier just scans the card which means we have picked it up.
Sans cash, sans snail mail and sans my insanity.
Does this sound like a good idea?
PS, If you click on the link to the story, Frank Sennett, editor-in-chief of Time Out Chicago has personally responded to my article.
Dev
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