{"id":529134,"date":"2010-04-15T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004601"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:29:58","slug":"why-should-i-subscribe-to-your-magazine-if-its-free-with-fewer-ads-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529134","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Subscribe To Your Magazine If It&#8217;s Free With Fewer Ads Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/4-15-2010%202-11-40%20PM-thumb-350x73-39347.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Here is the question that plagues the magazine industry at the moment. Reader Danielle likes Real Simple magazine and is a subscriber. However, there are so many ads in it that it&#8217;s ruining the experience for her. To make matters worse, the entire magazine is on their website&#8230; with fewer ads. So why should she subscribe?<\/p>\n<p>Danielle says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been a subscriber of Real Simple magazine for awhile now, and they are currently harassing me to renew my subscription. I&#8217;m not going to, and here&#8217;s why: when I receive my hard copy of the magazine it takes me thumbing through ten full pages of advertisements before I get to the first section. <\/p>\n<p>Ten pages! <\/p>\n<p>Considering that the pages are double-sided, that&#8217;s twenty ads to get to the initial content, and then many many more pages of ads in between every small section. Meanwhile, I can hop online and get all of the content that&#8217;s in the magazine for free with less ads. I just can&#8217;t believe this. There is nothing in the magazine that isn&#8217;t on the website! Where&#8217;s the benefit in being a subscriber? It&#8217;s so frustrating! I like the magazine so I <strong><em>want<\/em><\/strong> to give them my money, but I just can&#8217;t see any benefit in doing so. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Let&#8217;s ask the internet: What <em>should<\/em> magazines do to get you to subscribe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the question that plagues the magazine industry at the moment. Reader Danielle likes Real Simple magazine and is a subscriber. However, there are so many ads in it that it&#8217;s ruining the experience for her. To make matters worse, the entire magazine is on their website&#8230; with fewer ads. So why should she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}