Tiger Direct has been having Black Friday every month (or week) and it looks like Amazon has decided to join them in using the phrase for any big sale, regardless of the time of year. Today thru Sunday, March 6, they are having Black Friday Magazine Madness, with a number of print magazines on sale for $5 for a year's subscription. These do include auto-renewal, but all that means is that as your subscription gets close to the end, you'll get an email from Amazon that it will auto-renew (at whatever rate is currently in force, just like most magazines subscriptions that send you letters in the mail to renew). If you don't want to renew, you follow the link and cancel the renewal.I looked thru the selection and all of them are the type of magazine that the Kindle just doesn't handle well (at least, not yet). Gardens, wildlife, photography, aviation, boating, surfing, the Carribean, Bahamas and Florida are amongst the topics. I also saw several Science magazines that would be nice for kids as well as adults (and several on parenting and working mothers). Most of these are magazines with lots of glossy pictures that won't translate well to eInk. Although I doubt anyone pays the up to $60 list price quoted on some of them, I also don't think you'll find a better deal than the five bucks Amazon is asking. That, no doubt, doesn't even cover the postage for delivery.
A second magazine sale is also going on at Amazon, with $5 off the regular subscription price. That leaves a number under $10 (and Redbook is only $3).
