It's no longer possible to buy a print-only subscription to Scientific American. I'm not especially interested in a print+digital subscription, which is now $80/year(!), because I can find the digital new stories many other places for free (not all, for sure), and besides my bad neck means I just want to lay down and read Scientific American like I once could, not sit at a computer for 10-12-14 hours a day. (iPad isn't a lot of help.)
It's also no longer possible to do the same for the NY Review of Books, another magazine I used to read thoroughly in print-only form.
I know there's been inflation, but $80/yr seems like a lot to me. I heard someone today say that everything increased in price with COVID. In the US inflation during Biden's term was 21%, or 5.0%/year. A 1/5th increase in 4 years. And I'm not convinced that includes everything. So far under Trump inflation is 1.5%/yr in 5 months, but everyone expects that to explode due to his boneheaded tariffs. Might have to move to another country to survive.
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I've been a loyal SA subscriber for 49 years, and have watched with enormous disappointment as all the wonderful presentations of scientific research by the actual scientists themselves have just about entirely been replaced by newsy pieces written by people with titles like freelance journalist and science communicator. It's not l necessarily bad stuff but it's not what made SA the great magazine it used to be. I barely recognize the magazine anymore. And now they want me to pay almost $80 for it? Looks like I won't be going to 50 years, sadly, but enough is enough. I've had it.
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