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A while back, Brian uncovered this interesting site: Distriest. It’s a Sežana-based company that offers subscriptions to foreign magazines at suspiciously reasonable prices. They currently boast a respectable 656 available titles from nine foreign countries, including the States. This may not seem like a big deal at first, but it is when you realize how difficult getting your hands on foreign publications in Slovenia can be sometimes.
Take, for example, a subscription to the German magazine Schöner Wohnen. The first thing you’ll notice on their subscription page is that there’s no option to have it delivered to Slovenia. That’s because they only deliver within Germany. Distriest, in the meantime, offers it for an annual subscription price of 50 euros, which is just five euros over the newsstand price. That seems quite reasonable.
(In case any of you are wondering, this isn’t a paid advertisement or anything. I’m not nearly as financially astute as other bloggers, although I wish I was.)
And, to be honest, some deals are crap: A year’s subscription to The Guardian Weekly is ten euros more expensive if you order it at Distriest.
I currently have subscriptions to three U.S. magazines, and I’ve had trouble with them all from the beginning. The absolute worst of the bunch is The New Yorker. I pay twice the price to get it here, and am rewarded with upwards of a month’s delay. (See? I told you I wasn’t financially astute.)
What usually happens is that I get two (sometimes three) magazines on the same day. For example, last week I got three November issues simultaneously. You know that saying about nothing being older than yesterday’s news? Well, it’s true. Try reading a column speculating on the midterm elections when you already know how they turned out. It ain’t much fun, I promise.
I’ve complained a few times, but to no avail, and right now I really don’t have the energy to press the matter. I will, though.
Unfortunately for me, Distriest doesn’t offer The New Yorker. They do have erotic magazines, but somehow those aren’t quite the same.
(Thanks Brian!)
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As a great consumer of outside drucksachen I read this post with excitement, and a certain amount of this is too late to help. As a masochist, of course, I had to go to Distriest to find out how much money I was flushing away by subscribing straight from the source. Answer: none. They offer about half of the magazines I subscribe to, with prices ranging from 30 to 360 percent more.
I see that they categorize D-Cup as “Erotika”. I believe it is a parenting magazine.
I did enjoy learning that High Times is categorized as “CvetliÄ?arstvo/vrtnarstvo”.
Well.. i have currently subscription on 3 National Geographic magazines… i did everything via internet, Traveller and Adventure are mailed directly from the USA, while NG Magazine is always mailed via Distriest… fortunately i do always my subscriptions directly…
It’s been a while since I was subscribed to Time magazine - aslo through Distriest. Surprisingly it cost exactly the same as Mladina did at the time.
I didn’t know this service existed. Thank you so much for this, Michael!
MK bookstore Konzorcij in LJ offers subscriptions to foreign magazines, maybe they would get yours here faster.
Great, finally I get some opportunity to complain
: annual subscription for Mladina per air mail would cost me… 310 EUR. I don’t even want to check out Delo, because I am angry at them ever since they have done away with the free Sobotna priloga.
Good news is of course I get both for free online. The only problem is that after having read a lengthy piece of writing on my super modern screen, my eyes still want divorce…
A while ago I was thinking about ordering Le Monde, the most influential French newspaper. I ordered it over the net first but it arrived two days after being published. Distriest would actually deliver it the same day as in France. But only because I live in the center of Ljubljana. Otherwise, no go. I is also interesting to note that some magazines are cheaper. Take Science&Vie. Because they import older issues (after two months or so of being published) the price is quite a bargain. Worth thinking about.
Ok, I apologize for being completely off-topic, but I have a question begging to be answered by an expert. So, what would be the Slovene equivalent of oatmeal? I’ve thought it’s “ovseni kosmici” soaked in water, but then, maybe it’s “ovsena kasa” (which I can’t find in any stores, although najdi.si results suggest it exists). Help? Please?
Hm … from what I’ve read on Wikipedia, oatmeal (not cooked) equals our “muesli”? Doesn’t it?
but muesli often has other stuff in it, having eatten both, and enjoyed both, I’m here to tell you there IS a difference. Muesli is a lot more like a sort of proto-granola.
Oh just one more thing…I wonder if this firm sends magazines to BiH or Croatia?
I just wandered over and checked it out, YES they do!
yeah, I was also subscribed to (English language) NGM directly but it was distributed by Distriest