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I timed that well
Nov. 23rd, 2008 09:37 amGot an e-mail notification today informing me that my Pyramid subscription expires in 3 days. Of course, the online version of Pyramid ended last Friday, so that's a non-issue. But because I was a subscriber at the time it ended I get the next 6 monthly PDFs of Pyramid for free.
Good timing on my part.
I'm not sure how I feel about the monthly, tightly-themed version of Pyramid. It plays to my advantage right now because next month is a Supers theme and I have somewhere between 6 and 8 thousand words in it (unless Mr. Marsh found other articles to fill that space and didn't tell me about it), and I have some ideas for later issues as well. But the big advantage to the old Pyramid was the infinite variety of articles - you never knew what you were going to get - and the realization that with subscription costs each article ended up costing you about a nickle. Now it's $7.95 per issue, though you have the option to biu the issue or not. I suppose the cost difference means they expect more targeted sales, and that the eternal availability of the PDFs means they expect ongoing sales to people who missed the issue the first time.
I suppose I'll have to wait and see, but I will miss the old version. Fortunately, as a subscriber at the time that the online version shut down I was given free downloads to every single article from every issue.
Like I said, good timing.
Good timing on my part.
I'm not sure how I feel about the monthly, tightly-themed version of Pyramid. It plays to my advantage right now because next month is a Supers theme and I have somewhere between 6 and 8 thousand words in it (unless Mr. Marsh found other articles to fill that space and didn't tell me about it), and I have some ideas for later issues as well. But the big advantage to the old Pyramid was the infinite variety of articles - you never knew what you were going to get - and the realization that with subscription costs each article ended up costing you about a nickle. Now it's $7.95 per issue, though you have the option to biu the issue or not. I suppose the cost difference means they expect more targeted sales, and that the eternal availability of the PDFs means they expect ongoing sales to people who missed the issue the first time.
I suppose I'll have to wait and see, but I will miss the old version. Fortunately, as a subscriber at the time that the online version shut down I was given free downloads to every single article from every issue.
Like I said, good timing.
