Newsweek

So, I sign up for up a pretty good deal to subscribe to Newsweek for four years in advance.

Despite spending almost all my weekdays on the internet and reading news stories from all over the world, I still like supporting "old fashioned" print-media.

Besides which, reading a laptop on the toilet seems awkward.

Last week, I received my very first issue of the FOUR-year subscription. Cool enough.

However, this week, before I have even received the second issue, I get a "special savings opportunity" from them to extend my subscription for another year.

Now, that is just VERY poor and mindless marketing on Newsweek's behalf. It makes me feel they care FAR more about getting money from me than writing a good story.

I thought by committing myself to 4 years - in what is an uncertain publishing world - I was actually doing them a favour? Seems as if that is not nearly enough these days and you will be harassed for cash all the way through the subscription period?

If that IS the case - and they continue to hound - I'll tell them to stuff their magazine up their collective arses and ask for a full refund of unmailed copies, because this kind of thing just grips my shit. And I'd like it to grip theirs.