Includes all publications listed to left on this link. Especially applicable for FReepers are Wired, Conde Nast Traveler, New Yorker and GQ.
Good news for Freepers is that you can get free subscriptions to a number of those publications!!! (Wired and GQ among them)
I believe that the offer still stands that there is an online survery for contacts (for eyes) and afterwards, you will be rewarded with a free 1-year subscription (no credit card info or anthing like that, just address and email).
I do prefer being able to read a publication's articles online and comment with a larger group about the contents. This is fair use of the materials. The power of the internet is being denied. I guess that since the lead comment said that they do not outright purchase the articles, they won't even remain online in Vanity Fair's archive (I know that Wired's old articles do remain online). If the articles cannot even be read at the original site, linking to that site for full disclosure is pointless. I have stumbled on some old articles (or reread some old articles) when dredging up facts for this or that counterpoint to someone's comment. Some FReepers may not fact check or use citations to back up their arguments but I do at times (it is time consuming and it sometimes seems pointless since the other posters don't always bother to respond).
Mostly bathroom reading IMHO. If we never post anything from this group, all we would miss is fluff..
I get the New Yorker -- guess I'll have to cancel that one...