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kiwasabi:

--- Quote from: edekoning on September 04, 2013, 03:07:20 am ---Thanks for the tip guys. I bought about 3 issues now, and really enjoy reading it. Although trying to find a store that actually sells it was quite annoying.

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I love it, it's the only real magazine I still buy. I guess it only makes sense to read about retro games in a truly retro format huh? Barnes and Noble is the only store I've found that carries it.

paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: DickTurpin on July 12, 2013, 04:11:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on July 11, 2013, 11:49:45 am ---yeah they sell it at Barnes and Noble right next to the super dooshie Mac section of mags. Ive bought a couple of them, but at $10 a pop its too pricey to buy it every month.

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The digital edition (assuming PDF) is $4.50
In the UK you can subscribe now for 5 issues for £5. Without a commitment to continue after this expires.

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I would buy digital magazine if the publishers didn't try to quadruple their profits on them. The publisher sells a $10 cover price magazine to the distributor for about $3 and it costs them probably $2 to print it. The publisher makers a dollar. Distributor sells it to the bookstore for more and they sell it for $10. Publisher sells the PDF straight to the consumer, their costs run about 4 cents. But they inexplicably want $4.50.

The publishers of every form of media are doing this. Desperately trying to uphold or hold close to retail store pricing on digital releases. I haven't bought any music since 1999. If they sold an MP3 album for the same $1.50 they ended up with after costs  from a physical album I would buy music all the time. Instead they try to sell the things for the same price as the CD.

It seems like video game publishers are the only ones starting to get the digital distribution idea. Even then they still try to hold those retail price points on release day.

edekoning:

--- Quote from: kiwasabi on September 04, 2013, 06:52:10 am ---Barnes and Noble is the only store I've found that carries it.

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I don;t think we have those in the Netherlands :)

@paigeoliver

Tax may also influence the price difference between physical and digital goods. At least in the Netherlands the tax on a physical books/magazines is 6%, but that same product in digital form is taxed 21% :dizzy:

paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: edekoning on September 05, 2013, 03:06:25 am ---
--- Quote from: kiwasabi on September 04, 2013, 06:52:10 am ---Barnes and Noble is the only store I've found that carries it.

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I don;t think we have those in the Netherlands :)

@paigeoliver

Tax may also influence the price difference between physical and digital goods. At least in the Netherlands the tax on a physical books/magazines is 6%, but that same product in digital form is taxed 21% :dizzy:

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In the US the digital release isn't taxes at all in most cases.

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