Reading the fine print
I'm catching up on January comics! Yay!
I'd never actually read the fine print at the bottom on the DC Nation page, but today I did, and I learned a few things.
1) The comics I buy are printed on paper that "meets the sourcing requirements" of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
2) If I wanted to get a subscription to, let's say, Nightwing, since that's the comic whose fine print I'm currently reading, it'd cost me $30, plus $12 for postage and GST. (US Funds only). That means it would cost me $42 dollars USD, which, depending on the exchange rate, would probably end up costing me more than by buying them at my local shop. (Maybe I'm just ignorant to the ways of comic subscriptions, but isn't saving money the point of one? Or are you paying extra for the convenience of getting it mailed to you?)
3) The comics I buy are printed in Canada.
So...I've got a few questions.
First of all, to my American friends who buy DC comics, are your comics printed in Canada as well? And if so, do you have to pay extra for postage? It's a little ridiculous that comics printed in Canada need extra postage to be shipped to customers in Canada, is it not?
I'm also curious about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. I did a bit of googling, and found this, this, and this.
Seems like SFI is not the best choice, but DC does appear to be genuinely making the effort to be environmentally friendly, with their paper and their inks (that last link goes into greater detail).
I'd never actually read the fine print at the bottom on the DC Nation page, but today I did, and I learned a few things.
1) The comics I buy are printed on paper that "meets the sourcing requirements" of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
2) If I wanted to get a subscription to, let's say, Nightwing, since that's the comic whose fine print I'm currently reading, it'd cost me $30, plus $12 for postage and GST. (US Funds only). That means it would cost me $42 dollars USD, which, depending on the exchange rate, would probably end up costing me more than by buying them at my local shop. (Maybe I'm just ignorant to the ways of comic subscriptions, but isn't saving money the point of one? Or are you paying extra for the convenience of getting it mailed to you?)
3) The comics I buy are printed in Canada.
So...I've got a few questions.
First of all, to my American friends who buy DC comics, are your comics printed in Canada as well? And if so, do you have to pay extra for postage? It's a little ridiculous that comics printed in Canada need extra postage to be shipped to customers in Canada, is it not?
I'm also curious about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. I did a bit of googling, and found this, this, and this.
Seems like SFI is not the best choice, but DC does appear to be genuinely making the effort to be environmentally friendly, with their paper and their inks (that last link goes into greater detail).