Magazine cover bags

Anyone have an opinion on those magazine cover bags
they use? Do you think they increase sales (recent
Astronomy) or decrease them? I don't buy every
astro mag like I once religiously did and there is
more chance I'll buy it if I can skim the thing and
see if there is anything in it I'm likely to read.
-Rich

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Anyone have an opinion on those magazine cover bags
they use? Do you think they increase sales (recent
Astronomy) or decrease them? I don't buy every
astro mag like I once religiously did and there is
more chance I'll buy it if I can skim the thing and
see if there is anything in it I'm likely to read.
-Rich




When peering inside of S&T something may interest me then I will pay the
way too high price for it, but if it's wrapped in plastic they lose a
sale. Especially when it takes a cutting torch to get those stinking
plastic cover off!

Why not just use an exacto knife to cut open the "stinking plastic
cover"? I do want the same "stinking plastic cover" so that it will
protect my copy through the potential mishandling from one continent to
the other by both machine and man.

Anthony.

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:57:15 +0200, Anthony Ayiomamitis
wrote:

Why not just use an exacto knife to cut open the "stinking plastic
cover"? I do want the same "stinking plastic cover" so that it will
protect my copy through the potential mishandling from one continent to
the other by both machine and man.

I think they are talking about the trend towards packaging magazines
this way on the newsstand. Of course, it is a good thing for magazines
sent in the mail, but I wouldn't buy a magazine off a rack if there
wasn't a copy that I could browse first.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

RichA wrote:
Anyone have an opinion on those magazine cover bags
they use? Do you think they increase sales (recent
Astronomy) or decrease them? I don't buy every
astro mag like I once religiously did and there is
more chance I'll buy it if I can skim the thing and
see if there is anything in it I'm likely to read.

They don't do any good for home delivery - the dog eats the magazine
anyway, plastic bag and all, unless someone is home to intercept him.

I think they should deliver the magazine in a locked cast iron crate to
assure undamaged delivery. The rising price of the magazine surely
implies the appropriateness of delivery in iron.