@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian (Oh, and the third reason of not having to pay more for the issues that come with extra gifts that are themselves very rarely ever used. The supplement that came last month went straight for recycling before I’d even taken the main magazine upstairs to read it!)
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian I was never suggesting otherwise. I was simply stating that it surely must be possible to have "being a subscriber" allow opting out of the "receiving textless covers". I mainly do it for the savings and because my local stockist is too far to go when I’m not already there.
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian The only times I ever complain on that score is when some features I do enjoy get less coverage than they otherwise could because the space is needed elsewhere for things I don’t.
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian Probably because you’re erroneously assuming I want them to do anything differently. The entirety of my original point was simply that I wouldn’t necessarily object to a reduction in content without a reduction in price if that was what was necessary to keep the magazine going.
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian Even the comic strip I only read because it is there. I always skipped it before Liberation of the Daleks. (Even now I mostly just read the text and only use the pictures to identify who is saying each line, just as I do with all comic content.)
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian You’re still doing better percentagewise than the DVDs and BDs ever did/do, given they usually only got/get the episodes, info text, iso scores and photo galleries (and escape rooms and location/studio footage) plus a very occasional other piece of VAM!
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian Most of what does interest me is adequately covered either elsewhere or in other issues. Short of having bumper editions focused on multiple instances of a single feature at once, there’s not really much I’d add at all.
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian That’s why I asked the precise question I asked. It’s especially unhelpful when the cover picture is for an article you have no intention of reading in the first place, making it entirely irrelevant to the contents of that issue!
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian I’m not disagreeing with anything you said there. I was simply stating that I am certainly one person who would not object to a reduction in page count without a proportionate reduction in cost. I already subscribe to read less than half of each issue as it is!
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian I don’t think it’s missing anything per se; it’s more just I’m rarely interested in interviews; reviews of products I’ve not experienced are functionally meaningless until I experience them; and it is rather difficult discussing new episodes when there aren’t any!
@benjamin_cook@daveisageneric@Praxeus_stan@abitdickensian Also, is there a way to subscribe but still get the regular covers? It is very difficult finding the correct issues for particular articles when the covers are all just generic photos only relevant to a small part of that issue with no information as to the rest of the contents.