>>And practically anything you try to look at says you have to be a subscriber. Why put it on the internet, then?
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>Because there's no paper edition anymore?
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>They could have sent it by email, except that it would most likely be filtered out as spam. So the method of delivery is "you click your *ss over here and take it yourself". Which is all fine if there are no ads. Ads would be fine for the freebie part, if any, until the part that you paid for.


No, it's been that way for a while, meaning while they were still mailing paper magazines. My suspicion is they felt they had to have a web site because you can't be taken seriously without one any more, but didn't want free online content to cannibalize subscription sales. This is an issue newspapers and magazines deal with every day.