Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.

From: "Katherine Malm" <kmalm@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:45:16 -0500
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Hi Tom,

I have a guess that the cost for the e-copy is significantly higher because
they've probably figured out that there will be folks who buy the e-copy and
then share it. Of course, I'm not advocating this, but I'm sure that had
something to do with their pricing model. People share the printed copy now,
so it would make sense that they would share an e-copy as well, it'll just
be easier to do so--and besides, no KKD and SBUX stains all over the pages!

Katherine


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Worley" <stkguru@bellsouth.net>
To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.


| don't know how pertinent my experience may be, but when I subscribed to
IBD
| (back in the days before Daily Graphs Online was available, heck, the
| internet didn't exist then, I don't think), my copy of IBD was faithfully
on
| the front lawn every morning the same time as the local paper. How come,
you
| ask? I live in Miami, and IBD (then just Investors Daily) had enough
| subscribers in South Florida that they contracted with a local printer to
| print the paper. And contracted with a local delivery service (same one
that
| delivered the local paper) to deliver door to door. Thus, outside of Los
| Angeles, the quality of delivery seems dependent on two factors: the
| availability of a cheap printer, and a contractual delivery service. I
would
| also suspect that the sharp reduction in advertising dollars being spent
in
| the past few years has curtailed IBD's local contractual services in favor
| of mailing the paper (doesn't hurt that USPS keeps raising the rate for
| first class mail so we can subsidize the system while they won't layoff
| anyone, and bulk mailers continue to clog the system and create volume at
| heavily discounted and subsidized rates).
|
| What I don't get, especially since IBD is apparently still unable to
provide
| reliable daily service in many areas of the USA, not to mention the rest
of
| the world, is why charge so much more for an e version (then again, why
not,
| since people want the paper and IBD can't deliver reliably any way
else??).
| I believe that the paper must be totally in an electronic form at some
point
| before it hits the printing press. Therefore, the cost of distributing it
| electronically cannot be very great. Why not just give subscribers the
| choice of delivery form? If it means cutting down fewer trees to use
paper,
| that's good. It certainly seems to me that the cost of delivery would be
| cheaper for IBD, so if they charged the same, their profit margins would
go
| up if paper subscribers choose instead the e-paper.
|
| And they could always delay sending an e-paper to those with the free two
| week subscription so it arrives right before they have to leave for work.
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "J. Lobatto" <jlobatto@nyc.rr.com>
| To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
| Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:49 PM
| Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.
|
|
| I've got my own pet peeve and I live in New York City. In most of
Manhattan,
| IBD is delivered by hand early in the AM. Because of my zip code, although
I
| am just one block away from a hand delivery zip, IBD refuses to hand
deliver
| and mails it. As a result, 20% of the time it doesn't arrive until the day
| after it's supposed to arrive.
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: <Mendheart@aol.com>
| To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
| Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:07 PM
| Subject: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.
|
|
| > Canslimers,
| >
| > Can you help me with something.  I've consistently refused to subscribe
to
| a
| > regular IBD subscription because they can't get the paper delivered on
the
| > same date as publication.  Get this...its only been going on for 5
years.
| > They always make numerous excuses or that...'oh this is such timely
| > info..reading it later doesn't make any difference.  Give me a break.
| Now,
| > another caveat...I live in Boise, Idaho.  I know we're not a major city
| but
| > believe it or not we're serviced by airlines...very successfully I might
| add.
| >  We've had one of the best economies in the past 10 years as well as
| > tremendous growth and accolades...but apparently IBD cant get its act
| > together.  I realize this is a bit off subject...I'm just venting.  Its
| > simply the principle of the thing!  Thanks.
| >
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