longtail.com — In a highly amusing post, Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson annotates a magazine subscription notice under the title, "When is my industry going to stop lying?" Chris points out the innumerable lies that make up the average sub card.
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godlikeDec 2, 2007
LOL sorry, I don't subscribe to magazines... it's really funny to me that anyone actually does. They invented this thing called 'the internet' that makes them pretty f**king obsolete. I just find those things laying around everywhere at work, and they put them in the grocery fliers now too and are always falling out everywhere when I set the mail down. Just a little thing I like to do to pretend to kick back a little against the assh**es of marketing who feel the need to turn the whole f**king planet into an ad. Of course it means nothing to them with just me doing it, but in a way it's nice to pretend. Be the change, right?
riffraffsDec 2, 2007
I save up all of these postage prepaid cards, write "No Thanks" on them and dump them in the mailbox when I get around to it. They have to pay for each one sent back to them.
nyrfan444Dec 2, 2007
It's called marketing, not lying. The author should really look into finding something more meaningful to occupy his time with.
sonicjoshDec 2, 2007
They make good bookmarks.
markdykemanDec 2, 2007
Maybe they read it backwards and thought that the magazine was actually called Airplane Model Nudes?
diggerphelpsDec 6, 2007
This is the least of their problems.Both newspaper and magazines sub departments now use even more heavy-handed tactics to retain subs.My boss signed up for a "trial sub," and a few weeks later if you don't continue the trial, they start sending threatening looking letters from fake "collections" departments and the like, looking to frighten you into paying the "past due" bill or else.