Do you ever wonder...

...why digital subscriptions are more expensive than print subscriptions?

National Geographic

• print: $15 / 12 issues (annual) special offer, otherwise $19.99 / 12 issues (annual)
• digital: $19.99 / 12 issues (annual) 

Dwell

• print: $19.99 / 10 issues (annual)
• digital: $19.99 / 10 issues (annual) through Zinio, otherwise $1.99 / issue which equals $23.88 / 10 annually 

The Economist

• print: $2.19 / week
• digital:  $2.19 / week, otherwise digital subscription through Zinio is $2.49 / issue (week)

The labyrinth of pricing options, means of delivery and platform support is just mind numbing.  They're all anachronisms, these print publishers.

You can get the digital iPad subscription for free, if you subscribe to the print version, or maybe you'd like to subscribe to single-issue digital copies for a higher per-price cost, because there is no annual digital-only subscription rate?

WTF?

And all these companies have iPad applications / subscriptions, but not Android; you have to navigate through B&N, Zinio and Amazon, to get an Android-compatible version, but at that point, it's not free with your print subscription.

The only one (that I care about) that has it figured out, is Metropolis.

Metropolis

• print: $29.99 / 11 issues (annual)
• digital: $19.99 / 11 issues (annual)

 Thank goodness one of them has this digital stuff figured out.