New Yorker factoids

Oh, never mind the ins and outs of the diaeresis: here's something even more boring.

This year, as last year, the annual New Yorker ~~Fashion~~ Style Issue has arrived on newsstands and in mailboxes a week after New York Fashion Week. It's perfect-bound – chock full of ads – but it's a single, not a double, issue.

And yet it costs $4.99, a dollar more than the usual New Yorker cover price of $3.99. What's up with that? Are people so much more likely to want to read a long article by Larissa MacFarquhar on Diane Von Furstenburg than they are to want to read a long article by David Remnick on Bill Clinton that they will happily pay an extra dollar for the ability to read the former rather than the latter? Most peculiar.

Posted by Felix at 17:44 EST