1.   Being a magazine subscriber has become a bummer since they started badgering people to renew about a month after the subscription begins.

2.   Publishers are also working to create new links between their printed material and electronic content, such as sending magazine subscribers e-mail newsletters.

3.   So pervasive are these flaps that they have replaced subscription cards, renewal notices and mailing-list junk mail as the leading annoyance of magazine subscribers.

4.   They call magazine subscribers to let them know their magazines are up for renewal.

5.   Winners are determined through a survey sent to magazine subscribers.

6.   Magazine subscribers who paid by credit card were not affected, Sigman said.