Audio edition of the economist

[UglyCasanova]

So I live pretty far out and have to make a 20 min or so car ride into town and back again at least once each day, sometimes more. My car has an mp3 cd player so I have discovered the most wonderful thing ever. The Economist audio edition!!! Helps keep sanity in the car since all of the talk radio around here is terrible and I don't have satellite radio. Anywhom, that is all. 😛

 

[Fayd]

would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per new edition? And $10 for older editions? Fark that.

 

[theflyingpig]

I prefer to slice my own bread because it reminds me of slicing the throats of my enemies.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per edition? Fark that.

Yeah that's dumb. They can be found online *cough* and it's much cheaper to get a subscription to the Economist (which will in turn let you get the audio edition as well), and if you are a student it is even cheaper.

 

[Perknose]

Wow, thanks OP. For some reason I'm still considered a subscriber online even though my mag sub expired almost a year ago.

I :heart: The Economist.

 

[UglyCasanova]

:thumbsup:

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per edition? Fark that.

Yeah that's dumb. They can be found online *cough* and it's much cheaper to get a subscription to the Economist (which will in turn let you get the audio edition as well), and if you are a student it is even cheaper.

The mag sub itself is pretty damn pricey, you know. That and Collectible Automobile are the only two subs I repeatedly succumb to even though they COST!

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per edition? Fark that.

Yeah that's dumb. They can be found online *cough* and it's much cheaper to get a subscription to the Economist (which will in turn let you get the audio edition as well), and if you are a student it is even cheaper.

I shouldn't have to jump through all of those hoops to be a LEGAL customer. And no, I'm not a student.

I don't want a paper version. I want a digital/audio version only. I will not pay those prices to get more crap in my mailbox that I won't read just to have access to an audio version.

Screw them and the Pony Express they arrived on.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Yeah it is. But a year's subscription for me (at student prices) is $77. That's not bad for one coming in the mail every week. Right now I'm paying for The WSJ and National Geographic and I get Ebony coming in for free lol.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per edition? Fark that.

Yeah that's dumb. They can be found online *cough* and it's much cheaper to get a subscription to the Economist (which will in turn let you get the audio edition as well), and if you are a student it is even cheaper.

I shouldn't have to jump through all of those hoops to be a LEGAL customer. And no, I'm not a student.

I don't want a paper version. I want a digital/audio version only. I will not pay those prices to get more crap in my mailbox that I won't read just to have access to an audio version.

Screw them and the Pony Express they arrived on.

L LOVE the luxury of a print edition of anything.

But I guess for you, Listening is Fundamental!

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Fayd
would be cool if they turned them into podcasts. then you could keep updated on them.

$8.00 per edition? Fark that.

Yeah that's dumb. They can be found online *cough* and it's much cheaper to get a subscription to the Economist (which will in turn let you get the audio edition as well), and if you are a student it is even cheaper.

I shouldn't have to jump through all of those hoops to be a LEGAL customer. And no, I'm not a student.

I don't want a paper version. I want a digital/audio version only. I will not pay those prices to get more crap in my mailbox that I won't read just to have access to an audio version.

Screw them and the Pony Express they arrived on.

L LOVE the luxury of a print edition of anything.

But I guess for you, Listening is Fundamental!

Hahaha. No.

I just prefer to read online and/or listen in audio form.

 

[JJChicken]

sliced bread is better

 

[0roo0roo]

boring as sin. economist is something you skim through and when articles are boring or pointless or something you already know you skip them. it doesn't work so well in audio form read so slowly, even if you time stretch it gets dull fast because the writing style does not really work when spoken.
you can flip through the economist print in a reasonable amount of time, the audio book, not so much.