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I gave up after Rik had posted to some other thread and clearly wasn't going to respond to me.

Dude, cut me some slack.

I was sick a coupla days last week (hack, hack, hack...) and -- to be frank -- I don't know much about the circ stuff for the mag.  I tend to spend my few coherent hours worried about content, not delivery. C'est la mag biz...

With any luck at all, I'll have a few nanoseconds next week to track down the answer to your question -- but with Cathy off on her honeymoon, Chris off working on a new launch by our parent company, and me playing both EIC and ExecEd, I make no promises.

So cool yer jets, sir.  If you like Macworld better, subscribe to them.  If you like MacAddict better, subscribe to us.  If you'd prefer to pick 'n' choose, just buy off the newsstand -- which we'd prefer that you do, in any case, since our profit margins are better.

So be it. 

For me, I'm back to editing our "Product Slugfest" feature for next month -- all the top Mac apps, head-to-head, plus tech stuff like DSL vs. cable, hubs vs. switches -- and far more important stuff, such as Star Wars vs. Star Trek, AL vs. NL, Rock vs. Country, etc.

Might be fun; might not -- your call -- but we're giving it our best shot.

I have sadly come to the decision to let my MacAddict subscription run out.  In fact I just received an issue without a cd saying that I was no longer a subscriber and that it would be my last MA.  I too have been a subscriber since the start.  I bought MacAddict 1 through 4 off the newstand and have had a subscription ever since.  I still have every issue with its cd in a binder.  I liked the mag that much.  Unfortunately, over the last two years or so the magazines value to me has subsided greatly.  I feel that there are a variety of factors contributing to this such as product reviews available online (which in my opinion are more accurate), up to the minute product release information available online, my dwindeling interest in Mac gaming, and a scarcity of meaningful how-to's.  The only features that have been really interesting or valuable to me as of late have been the Pro interviews, but even those only go so far.

I have basically come to the realization that paying for a subscription to MA based primarily on my pride in having every issue and being there from the start doesn't make a lot of sense.  There was a time when I would spend hours pouring over the pages of MacAddict.  Now its surprising if I spend more that fifteen minutes flipping through the pages and seeing products I am not interested in and articles filled with information that has been available online for two weeks.  Anyway, I don't really know if I even had a point with this post, but I wanted to throw in my opinion.  If it is any consolation I am also letting my MacWorld subscription run out.  I have been subscribing to them for four years.

Thanks for the info Rik! As I said, with access to broadband, the CD isn't critical to me anymore, but obviously there are a lot of people still using dial-up who need it.

IMHO, you should advertise the two year subscription option more, and maybe even sweeten the deal a bit - say $45 or $40 for the two years. Believe it or not, $15 makes all the difference - at least to me.

Thanks again, and I'm sure I'll be grabbing a few issues off the newsstand.