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DO NOT SUBSCRIBE THROUGH AMAZON
I emphasize what others have said -- ordered subscription in July and still have not received 1 issue, nor does the Atlantic website show that my subscription has been renewed. Very disappointing, particularly since Amazon has been pushing its magazine subscription service.
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Do not subscribe through amazon!
I placed an order for subscription for the magazine on June 30. It is October now and I still have not received any issues of the. When I checked on the magazine web site it showed that I have no subscription with them. I started writing amazon inquiring about the magazine but they have been referring me back and forth to the magazine subscription unit with no clear results. I requested a refund from amazon which I still have not received. My next step will be to make a claim with my credit card. Very disappointing amazon customer service. The magazine, though, is really interesting and intellectually stimulating so this review should not have any bearing to the contents of The Atlantic itself.
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I don't recommend buying through Amazon
I like Atlantic Monthly, but this review is specifically about Amazon's subscription offer.
As some others have noted, it takes a long time (a very long time) to get the first issue. And if there's a problem, Amazon says "not our problem, call the provider". What I find especially annoying is that it's not obvious how to contact the provider, since Amazon doesn't make it easy to find their info. (Update: I finally found the info, and Amazon also emailed it to me. It's still a royal pain, for no added value in return.)
Just go to the Atlantic website and subscribe directly from them (same price).
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Atlantic Mag forever!
My subscription has not started yet, but I'm eager to renew reading it. The Atlantic had been part of my life since I was a kid in the 30's.
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Great magazine gone bad
I began subscribing to the Atlantic around the time of start of the war in Afghanistan, and was an ardent fan. I loved the reporting by James Fallows and Mark Bowden, Mark Steyn's obits, and Christopher Hitchens' erratic but occasionally terrific stuff. It was literary, combative, intelligent, centrist but never doctrinaire. But after a few years I noticed a worrying development. Stories kept cropping up that I suppose were meant to attract a young female readership. They were about boring subjects like healthcare and organic food. There was an editorial slant that was indistinguishable from the NYT or Slate. They ran a cover story about the shortage of good nannies and later an adulatory profile of Barack Obama. Steyn disappeared. The month I cancelled my subscription, Britney Spears was on the cover. I read later that the magazine was taken over by a new publisher around the time it went bad, and it had a callow young editor who was on a drive to raise circulation. Rather than screwing up the content of the magazine, they should have fixed their subscription department. At one stage I had four subscriptions going-- 3 of them gifts to friends, because I was such a fan. When I started a subscription or changed my address, it would take 5 or 6 months for the changes to be carried out. Even responding to my enquiries took weeks. -- A young female reader.
