New Yorker magazine alert thread

Btw, re: the forensic linguistics article, was one of the guys in it the same dude that The Wire made fun of?

all nyer bloggers now have unflattering avatars, btw

http://www.newyorker.com/images/permanent/p290/perm_w-john-cassidy_p290.jpg

Subscription is expiring just as I'm moving. Am I going to get a better deal if I renew and change addresses or start a new one at the new address, or does it not matter?

mine lapsed a couple of months ago - i'm between places, so i'm going without until i've moved - & the re-up note i just got in the mail didn't offer me anything better than the standard subscription rate. was your subscription originally discounted? it's been a while since i saw any offers tbh.

I renewed my subscription after several months of "LAST WARNING" notices -- only to discover, after I renewed, that my last renewal was actually for TWO years, so the notices were basically just letting me know that it had been a year since my last renewal. (?) Anyway, now I have a subscription through sometime in 2014.

yeah, same here tipsy! in fact, i think that's happened to me TWICE, and both times i've been fooled and renewed for another two years. i should probably get someone on the phone, but i think i'm actually good through 2015 or so right now, even as my latest issue included a "LAST WARNING" card.

there is some messageboard talk saying you can call conde nast & be all 'c'mon, c'maaaaaan' & they'll knock $10 off it

i don't really know how a nyer subscription covers the cost of mailing the magazines & any subsequent letters they send you, it is a confusing economy

nyer is a money losing venture fwiw

i dont think so! pretty sure it turns a profit

Yeah they're smart with their costs -- they don't print many photos and always get some complete amateur to write their humor articles.

I actually forgot what Shouts & Murmurs was called for a second and wanted to refer to it as "Shits & Giggles"

would be a good name for the section in a nyer parody

xxpost i dont think anyone really knows

i dont think so! pretty sure it turns a profit

― max, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:37 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well no one but conde nast knows but the word on the street is its a prestige loss leader

Actually 90% of the venture's revenue still comes from Saul Steinberg's View from Ninth Ave cover

which stand to reason if you look at how much work is put into it compared to its ad pages xp

I resubscribed for $39 last October and got a letter last week saying "later this summer we'll be sending you your renewal invoice, just letting you know now. PS, renewal will be $69, kthxbye."

I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.

I seem to remember Harpers having a great snobby personals section at one time where posters would rattle off advanced degrees and esoteric requirements. I guess that's off topic.

haha yes

dont know what street youre on! its either made a profit or been pretty close since the early 2000s. last few years were probly rough but its not like harpers or whatever

what r u even basing this on max

the only time i ever heard about nyer finances was wrt its editors - iirc the Remnick Era is cited w/turning it around & making it profitable? but then that might be wrt not spending money on a big wedding cake for tina brown to pop out of every time she entered a room.

I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:45 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha otm, also upstate schools for sensitive children
this thread has convinced me to nobly re-up at full cost when i get around to it, anyway

argh what was the harpers personal section called, something like "discerning singles"?

distracting shingles

what r u even basing this on max

― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:49 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"word on the street"?

i already took word on the street, maybe try talk of the town

As an Oberlin alum, I like seeing the ads for Kendall at Oberlin, the retirement community in Oberlin. For old people who like access to world class music performances, good film series, obnoxious college students, cornfields and economically depressed Ohio.

oh yeah, with the sheep right

i dont think so! pretty sure it turns a profit

― max, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:37 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well no one but conde nast knows but the word on the street is its a prestige loss leader

― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:41 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is also what I have heard from my friend 'the street', fwiw.

googling turns up a couple references to it turning profits in the late 90s/early 2000s. if its losing money its not losing money on the order of harpers, newsweek, etc.

let's write fanfic about it

I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, July 30, 2012 10:45 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought it would be a good idea to write a piece about the longterm advertisers in the nyer, like the guy who's still selling french berets 40 years later

So many adds for psychiatric treatment!

ads, even

i want to live in the basketweaving/potterymaking/afghanknitting communities for seniors that they push

psyched for this

https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/229746942727557120

i love con people

have you ever read david maurer's the big con?

me too
xpost

its one of the most entertaining and fascinating books ever imo - maurer was a linguist in the 30s who wanted to write a book about underworld slang, but then was so captivated by the con men he met in his research he just devoted a whole book to them

i should check that out, someone was just telling me abt another con book last night which tells the true story of a mark who later after much effort turned the tables and ran a con on his conners

whoa what's that

DEF read the maurer, its a nonstop delight

lol i dont remember what it was called, ill check out the big con tho

its called 'the mark inside' apparently

whoa my name is mark

or is it

let me give u this envelope with $50 in it

ok but I'm going to need you to give me a $25 start-up fee as well

whoa can i get in on this