And then I thought, speaking of magazines, where the Murray Perahia have my New Yorkers <\/i>and Vanity Fairs <\/i>gone off to? And why didn’t I get the last two issues of my beloved Domino<\/i>, may she rest in peace. So I got on the horn with Conde Nast, only to learn that they had removed a “3” from my address for no apparent reason, but that they would start sending my magazines again next week. Oh, and did you get a letter asking about where to transfer your Domino <\/i>subscription to? No. Well, do you want Architectural Digest<\/i> for the next 2 years? I mean, I guess? <\/p>\n
Then I bought tickets to something at Joe’s Pub, and was told again that I got a free subscription to New York <\/i>magazine, which I guess means that, via Joe’s Pub purchases, I have a 3-year subscription? <\/p>\n
Forget giving their content away for free online; they’re giving away the print versions, too! I think the last time I wrote a check to a magazine, it was for $12 which got me another 2-year subscription to Domino<\/i> plus a gift subscription that I sent to my grandmother. Apparently my 12 bucks were not, in fact, enough to keep the magazine afloat. <\/p>\n
And in other news-news, when I was on vacation a few weeks back, a stapled series of pages called “TimesDigest” arrived at the door every morning where the actual New York Times<\/i> used to be. So, presumably, instead of shipping the newspapers to Costa Rica, where I was, they e mail the hotels the highlights and the hotels print\/photocopy in-house. Fine by me and the environment, but probably not ideal for the Times<\/i>. Unless the shipping and printing costs were getting prohibitively expensive, and at least this way their brand stays out there? <\/p>\n
It’s no small wonder magazines are folding. Here’s what happened yesterday: I filled out an application to join MediaBistro and it asked me whether I wanted a free subscription to New York, Wired, Gourmet or W magazines. Erm…Wired? And then I thought, speaking of magazines, where the Murray Perahia have my New Yorkers and Vanity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"TimesDigest1.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/TimesDigest1.jpg\")
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