Should I cancel my New York Times subscription?
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 13, 2007 in newspapers
We’re moving in a few weeks and trying to decide whether to cancel our Sunday-only home delivery subscription to The New York Times. We’ve kept it this long mainly for the magazines, but it seems a bit silly to pay $27 a month to have all those other sections delivered, too. I genuinely prefer to read the magazines on paper, though I did recently read the entire 8,000-word story about Judd Apatow on the 2 x 1.5 inch screen on my cellphone. (I think it was about 30 pages. Painful.)
What do you think? Should we cancel our Sunday NYT subscription? Surely there are a few current or former ink-on-paper NYT subscribers among you. Why do you subscribe? Why did you stop subscribing?
patrick | Jun 14, 2007 | Reply
can you subscribe to the magazine alone? if not, why? i wonder if the execs over at the nyt have considered and rejected such an option; if not, i would get it (for the same of your poor, cell-screen-abused eyeballs).
William M. Hartnett | Jun 14, 2007 | Reply
Nope, no magazine-only subscriptions. I’d sign up in a second if they offered the option. I suppose what I really need is a neighbor who likes the paper but doesn’t care for the magazine with whom to split a single subscription.