We're Giving Away NR Subs to College Students
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Breaking News Nov. 29, 2013 Dear NR Friend, You no doubt could use a Morning Jolt today, but I can't fake it. Jim is probably sleeping off excess turkey drumsticks and dreaming of cranberry sauce. Good for him! We'll simply fill the time slot by encouraging you to encourage students – US college students, anyone with an .edu email address – to take advantage of our special offer. Which is? A free one-year digital subscription to National Review. That's right, it's the very same as the magazine we publish 24 times per annum, minus the dead trees. To American college kids (sorry Canadians and others – the ".edu" is the only control mechanism I have). Sign up is easy, and risk free (there is no gimmickry here, no data-base amassing, no we'll-be-selling-the-kid-credit-cards schemes). And done here. That's it. I hope Thanksgiving Day was wonderful, and that the approaching holidays will be the same. Best, Jack Fowler By the way . . . So I just got into a little Twitter wee-wee match with some smarty pants #@!% surgeon, about this very College Student Free Subscription Program. Gotta admit, we're kinda proud of it, and we like to spread the word about it regularly. So earlier this week I Tweeted: "College students: Get a FREE National Review (digital) subscription. Why are we doing this? Because we're nice!" And gave the web address: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrdsubscribe_edu Hey, we are nice. There is no ulterior motive to this, no coinage to be had, no numbers to be inflated. We simply want college kids (who, let's face it, aren't going to buy a subscription to NR or any other magazine – and I am speaking of the typical kid because I know some of our true fans subscribed in the Third Grade) to have NR and its wisdom. But Doc Know It All saw my Tweet and replied: "really... be honest.... we KNOW why you're doing it.... tell 'them'." Me: Huh? He: "you're doing it to increase circulation." Me: "No. It doesn't count towards circulation. Anything else you want to explain to me about publishing?" He: "the purpose is to get your name out ... never implied I know more about your world ... but the intent is obvious" Me: "What's obvious is you imply an act of altruism is selfish somehow. We want to give young kids NR. Period." He: "well, when I do pro-bono surgery, I feel good..... no such thing as a truly selfless act." Grrrrrr! I have let it die. What a smug doofus though. As smug a doofus as our program is great! To read more, visit www.nationalreview.com Why not forward this to a friend? Encourage them to sign up for NR's great free newsletters here. Save 75%... Subscribe to National Review magazine today and get 75% off the newsstand price. Click here for the print edition or here for the digital. National Review also makes a great gift! Click here to send a full-year of NR Digital or here to send the print edition to family, friends, and fellow conservatives.
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