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The FT Weekend is one of the great simple pleasures of my life. Each weekend I canter through its salmon pages, learning of people, events, and ideas.
The FT is more global than the WSJ in its coverage and outlook (I am a print subscriber to both). You get serious thinkers across the spectrum, including highly regarded economics commentator Martin Wolf. I look forward to David Pilling’s dispatches from Africa.
A Financial Times subscription does not come cheap. Now through December 2, 2019 is the lowest I have seen since July 2018: $99 for a print subscription, $165.88 for digital (no additional package discount for purchasing both). This is a public offer open to new subscribers, subscribe here.
Note: if digital is what you are after, Joey in the comments points out you can use miles to get a digital subscription via Newspaper Rewards. Current prices for 12 months of FT digital are: 3,600 Alaska miles, 3,960 American miles, 2,829 JetBlue points, or 3,300 Hawaiian miles. United miles get the ‘eEdition’ for 3,960 miles which could be digital or may be the ePaper.
Delivery area: unfortunately, FT delivery area in the US is limited. Check your zip code on the subscription form to see if you are eligible. If you are really determined, you might call in to see if they will agree to mail delivery to a zip code that lacks home delivery.
Renewals: FT does not make it as difficult to unsubscribe as WSJ. Approaching the end of the year you’ll get email offers at an increased rate to renew. I have not been auto-charged for not renewing. If you call in, you’ll typically be offered a ‘step up’ offer of $50-$100 more than your prior year.
Digital: a print subscription does not include digital access. If you want digital, you’ll need to separately subscribe to that. See note above about Newspaper Rewards as an alternate.
ePaper: a print subscription includes ePaper access, a PDF-like viewer. Digital subscriptions do not include ePaper access.
ePaper only: if you don’t want or can’t get home delivery and want the ePaper, get ePaper only for $99. On the print subscription page, enter your zip code or a zip code that doesn’t have home delivery to get the ‘more options’ screen and continue to the ePaper offer.
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I subscribe to FT using my aadvantage miles. It’s only 3960 aadvantage miles for 52 weeks for the digital subscription (I believe it’s the same rate for mileageplus miles). Depending on how much you personally value aadvantage miles or mileageplus miles, this may be a better value than the black friday deal.
@Joey How do you do that?
@Karim – I updated the post with the link. Great find by Joey.
@Joey – thank you, I may go for that! Can use AA, AS, B6, and HA. UA is called “eEdition” which I am not sure if is digital or ePaper. Anyway, it is more expensive than I’d want. B6 looks the best rate for me.
Do you have any idea about the site https://digitalandprint.com?
@Deb – that is a new site to me. It looks legit. I’ve not comparison shopped everything listed. For The Economist, discountmags.com often has good deals. That Bloomberg looks good as it implies full Bloomberg New access, not just Businessweek that I get as a print subscriber, though it shows out of stock.