For the fifth holiday season in a row, Spacing is selling a unique product that no other magazine offers. We take the three issues of Spacing published in 2009, wrap them up in a TTC route map, and stuff it with three free postcards (courtesy of Ballenford Books, the now-defunct architecture book store at Bathurst and Bloor).
You can pick it up the discounted rate of $20 ($24 if bought separately on newsstands).
These holiday gift packs are available at three stores:
• Dark Horse Espresso Cafe (215 Spadina Ave. just north of Queen W.)
• Soundscapes ( 572 College St. in Little Italy)
• This Ain’t The Rosedale Library (86 Nassau St. in Kensington Market)
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Honestly, I’m going over to Dark Horse tomorrow to buy one of these packages with the hope that it will soon be the end of these adverts.
It’s almost as bad as seeing Goldie on PBS telling me that the movie will be starting soon. Good work Spacing; sell some new/out of date publications as a nice holiday package.
You win; get some new packaging!
Dennis: Do you have any idea of the narrow margins Spacing operates with, and that selling these gift packs of our back issues (that we have already paid for) keeps this operation alive, pays our rent, lets us continue to underpay our fine and good writers who let us underpay them so we can put this thing out, and lets us, the editors, give ourselves an honorarium every 5 months?
Please tell us when you cash your weekly/monthly paycheque – we will live-blog the whole thing and try to make you feel as shitty about how you sustain yourself as you are doing to us now.
If that isn’t cool, then you’re likely willing to pay $40 or $50 an issue to reflect the actual cost of the mag + blog, (if we were paying ourselves and our writers living wages, that is)? Yes? No?
Sorry these adverts are a bother to you (on behalf of Spacing and PBS).
I can honestly say that reading this posting in my RSS feed cost me almost no time, effort, or distress. My condolences to Dennis for the hardships he must be facing at this time of the year for this to have bothered him so much. I truly have no idea what you’re obviously going through.
Wow Dennis, chill out. If you don’t like the gift pack full of back issues, how about some Spacing Subway or Town buttons?
Shawn, Sean and J,
You’re right and I was wrong. I love Spacing and will always support you. Sorry I took it out on Goldie.
Is alright. Criticize our opinions, writing, articles, pictures, politics – etc – all that’s fair game. The crappy economic model that supports all this is sensitive though.
Honestly, I love these holiday packs and I pick one up every year. However, since they are only in a limited number of stores, it’d be nice if you could spread the stores out a bit. The three stores they are in are so close you may as well have just put them in one store.