Okay, so there are free magazine offers floating around there somewhere, but how do you find them??

Well, that's where this page comes in. :o)

While I'm on the subject, when you see a magazine you really want and it's offered for free, DO NOT wait. Free magazine promotions are not endless.

Publishers usually set aside so many free subscriptions. Anyone else after that is out of luck (you'll be told somewhere in the sign up process, if not right away, that the free subs have been depleted).

I've seen offers of free subscriptions for free magazines stick around for weeks. But then again I've seen free subscriptions for TV Guide go within an hour.

Watch short videos and earn a magazine subscription. Right now they have Good Housekeeping, Popular Science, Skiiing Magazine, Ode and Field & Stream available and will have more to offer soon (including Esquire, Cosmo, Marie Claire, House Beautiful and Alternative Medicine).

How It Works

Create an account (basic info - your email address and mailing address). They will not ask for a credit card number. AdPerk.

Click on the "reward" (magazine) you wish to work towards.

Start watching videos. Most videos are between thirty seconds to three minutes in length (you can choose which videos to watch, and, of course, it makes more sense to watch the videos that have the most "points" so you get to your reward faster).

After each video, you'll have thirty seconds to enter a word verification code, so they know you are actually sitting in front of the computer. If you let the time run out, you don't get credit for "watching."

For Good Housekeeping, it took around 20 minutes (from registration through watching the last commercial). I qualified for the magazine in mid-January and received my first issue (with confirmation on the label that I'll be receiving it thru February 2009) at the end of February. Not bad considering Good Housekeeping is $10 per year via subscription and $30 on newsstands.

And you can request more than one magazine as long as you watch the required amount of ads.
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For more information:
Ad Perk In the News (media releases): http://www.adperk.com/press.php

The AdPerk Blog: http://blog.adperk.com/

Most, if not all free magazine subscription offers will plainly state that the subscription is free and will even go on to add "you will not receive a bill" or something to that effect. Free magazine subscription offers will never mention a "sample" issue or a "trial offer" or "trial subscription." They'll also never ask for a credit card or form of payment.

Are there magazines out there that will resort to trickery? Let me just say that in over seven years of signing up for free magazines, only one caused me a minor headache. I'd signed up for free fishing lures for a friend and suddenly found myself with a subscription (and a bill) for a magazine I didn't sign up for or want. I simply called the 800 number within the magazine. The subscription was cancelled and I wasn't charged anything for the issues I received.

More often than not, after you read a magazine, you give it away, throw it away, or it ends up in a forgotten stack in your bedroom or garage.

What I'm saying is, after you read a magazine, unless you refer to it from time to time, you're pretty much done with it. So why not just borrow magazines? Read them and give them back.

How?

Your local library has TONS of popular magazines. And yes, you CAN borrow them, just as you would books.

My local library will allow anyone to borrow magazines as long as they aren't current issues (which really doesn't matter much - especially when it comes to weekly publications).

Contact your local library for details.