Subscription to The New Yorker

September 17, 2006 4:04 PM

Does anybody out there in the UK subscribe to The New Yorker? How long does it take for the magazine to arrive via Surface Mail? How about Airmail? And, how do I get the best subscription rate, please? Thanks a lot
posted by marcomartini to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

I used to get it while I was in london and it was unreliable via surface mail. I sometimes got it within a week, sometimes after three. use airmail.

(btw, I have the same issue with getting german weeklies delivered to the us. in new york, it was no problem to have them within a week, in los angeles it easily took three. the problem obviously is the us postal service.)
posted by krautland at 5:28 PM on September 17, 2006

Why not just buy it at your local newsagent? The New Yorker is distributed in the UK by Comag, one of the largest magazine distributors in the country. Any decent newsagent will either stock it or be able to order it for you.

This has the dual advantages of getting the issues to you the same week they're on the US newstands, and letting you skip numbers with no articles of interest.
posted by Hogshead at 5:58 PM on September 17, 2006

What Hogshead said. There's also not much difference between off-the-shelf and subscription pricing outside the US.
posted by holgate at 6:18 PM on September 17, 2006

In the US there are $26/year deals floating around. Probably still too expensive to get one of those and then ship it over.
posted by mecran01 at 8:12 PM on September 17, 2006

I dunno if this works outside the US but ebay has amazing deals on subscriptions. I got the NYer for about 5 bucks. The only catch is that it takes about 6 weeks for the subscription to kick in.
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:12 PM on September 17, 2006

Response by poster: Thanks everybody for taking the time to reply...

I thought about getting the magazine through my local newsagent in London, but it's way too expensive when compared to the Surface Mail prices offered on The NY'er website ($112 a year vs £180 a year ); I know that Surface Mail is unreliable though, so I wrote to the NY'er subscription service to find out about airmail prices...

Does anybody know if the magazine is available as a digital edition, by any chance?

Thx again :-)
posted by marcomartini at 1:59 AM on September 18, 2006

You can read almost every previous New Yorker in digital form, but the new ones are not published in an electronic edition. Some of the magazine is on the web, of course. As far as the rest - do you have access through a British (or US, if you know someone) public library card; that might allow you access to full text of the New Yorker online for free about 2 weeks after each issue is published. You can easily purchase such a library card cheaply in the US ($20 or $30) in many (but not all) locations, but you have to show up once a year in person to renew it. And not all libraries have access to a adtabase with the New Yorker (Of the 3 major databases available to libraries, I know the full Proquest and I think the full Infotrac does have full text, while EBSCO doesn't)
posted by spira at 11:34 AM on September 18, 2006