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A single issue is about $19; a one-year subscription, about $60.
There is a restricted, cheaper level of subscription (about £10 per month) which only allows the music to be played on the computer on which it has been downloaded.
The other night I was watching a very moving BBC TV report, maddeningly not available to viewers outside the UK or without the right kind of satellite subscription, about a hospital in Amman, Jordan, set up by Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) to treat the maimed victims of war in the Arab world, notably from Iraq and now from Syria.
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The three major cellphone carriers offer unlimited monthly subscriptions for about $60, including a compatible PC card with a two-year contract.
Rather than relying heavily on advertising revenue, which now makes up only about 11 percent of the income, it depends mainly on subscriptions (about 60 percent of revenue) and fund-raising (about 25 percent).
A high proportion of the magazine's circulation is made up of subscriptions – about 32,000 – with only about 10,000-12,000 copiesoldld on newsstands for the full cover price, with the remainder given away for free as bulks.
Demand was so strong that the initial $2.8 billion issue was raised to $3.5 billion, and ultimately drew $11.4 billion in subscriptions, about half of them from international investors.No wonder investment bankers who needed terms like riba (interest) translated only a year ago no longer scratch their heads at the wonders of Islamic finance.
It is not all about high value: some of the subscriptions, about 2,000, have come in through the door via discounting through places such as Groupon, but more have followed various specials; the Sunday Times Rich List, the Mandelson book serialisation, for example.
But if the Apple newsstand subscriptions could come in around the same price that people pay for print subscriptions (about a dollar an issue), the pricing would likely be seen as less of a problem.
– limited amount of premium subscriptions (about 1% or 170,000 users) – possible taxation on virtual monetary transactions in a variety of countries – cost and complexity of running the technical infrastructure behind the virtual world.
XM charges a monthly subscription fee of about $10, while Sirius charges about $13.
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