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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5611687" data-attributes="member: 19675">Been a part of the digital age for some time.  I just happen to value the benefits of physical product more highly than most.For instance, high-tech smart-phones are nice (I don't own one, but that's a different story), and you can access all kinds of stuff on them.However, if I were to travel to Russia today, as I have before, I wouldn't take one with me.  You have to jump through so many hoops to bring something like that into the country that unless you do it frequently, its simply not worth it.I also don't care for the data plans.  I can do a lot with my $30/month that will make me happier than spending it on that, especially over the projected span of my phone plan.Until wi-fi becomes nigh-ubiquitous, my other portable electronics spend most of their time unable to access the internet.  And since I live in Tornado Alley, the occasional power outage is a fact of life.  So a magazine or book still has significant value for me.(And that's without getting into my history with ever-changing data formats...)True, but it isn't treating us as well as the online adopters.  There is much I've heard about in 4Ed that interests me, but is only available via DDI.And simply put, a monthly/annual subscription-fee based economic business model for something I wish to keep for decades is NEVER going to win me as a customer.</blockquote>