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| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
List Price: $59.88
Buy New: $10.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  136 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7TL
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
 Casual Technology Reading R'us September 21, 2008
I love this magazine for casual absorption of random technology and success stories.
-C.W.
 Um, where is it?? September 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have not received a single issue of this magazine. So my review would be that it's full of fail.
Chair-side companion for the PC-aware September 17, 2008
Wired magazine and its many sister south-of-Market Street (San Francisco, a hip area) publications have been leaders in aggregating what's important for people to read and to know in order to keep pace with changes in technology.
Sitting down with "Wired" is like sitting down with "Dwell", an architecture magazine - you want to do everything you read about. With "Wired", however, it's possible to achieve, or at least imagine achieving, the aspirations of the stories' subjects.
The front part of the book has letters and regular pieces. My favorite is "Tired/Wired/Expired", where a clever person takes five or six trendy concepts through their linguistic cycles and tosses them by the side of the road.
There is no way to predict any specific article in an upcoming issue, but in general you'll find articles on hard technology, human-computer interfaces, and intellectual freedom. The magazine's designers have given it at least one makeover, and it's much friendlier to 52-year-old eyes than it was when it and "Mondo 2000" were competing for readership.
"Wired", for all its hipness, is a Conde Nast publication (as is Vanity Fair and the New Yorker). As such, you have a right to expect a quality magazine. On the other hand, the subscription rate is widely discounted, so your right is lessened a little. Nevertheless, it's a pleasure to find it in the mailbox when I get home from work.
For what it's worth, my other subscriptions are the "New Yorker", "Dwell", "Booklist" (a professional publication), "Westways" (AAA magazine), and "The Week". Keep your eye on "The Week"...it's worth keeping alive.
Wired subscription from Amazon September 14, 2008
Hard to review a product you haven't received yet. So . . . I know Wired is an awesome magazine, but the subscription service from Amazon hasn't delivered over a month later.
Not so good on customer service. Price is great, but no product = no satisfaction after a month. You better be real patient to feel good about this sale!
 A confusing magazine; not what it used to be September 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used to subscribe to this magazine back in the internet heyday around the turn of the millennium. It was great, really different but more important, really RELEVANT. I saw this great offer for $1/issue and figured what the heck I'll try it again. This magazine is nowhere near what it used to be, and it's just chock full of glossy, irrelevant ads. They even include other magazine clips and advertising inserts inside the plastic wrap it comes with. It reminds me of my wife's Glamour magazine now.
Yes, some of the articles are still trendy and forward looking from a technology standpoint, and it's a great value at $1/issue, which is why I'm still rating it 3 stars, but it's so all over the place in terms of content now as to be confusing. It has lost its identity. I am not going to renew it.
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