Magazine for Miles; WSJ, Barron's, Economist and BusinessWeek at Tremendous Savings

Company: Magazine for Miles
Product: Magazine for Miles
Cost: pay in airline miles

I get my Wall Street Journal, Barrons and a number of other business magazines with my airline miles. If you are like me, you probably have miles on various airlines that do not add up to 25,000 miles, the general amount needed for a free ticket. These spare miles sit there month after month, year after year. However, it is likely that you have 2,626 miles or 3,200, just a cross-country trip, enough for 39 weeks of the Wall Street Journal. Some annual subscriptions can be had for as little as 1,200 miles.

In my experience the process is relatively automated and the magazines come relatively quickly. There are generally no problems with the service, and at 1.0 - 1.5 cents per mile, the cost is relatively low. Mostly this is about getting something that you could use, that you usually pay for, for something that you usually don't give a second thought to, a pretty good deal. 

Sample Business Magazines from American Airlines and United Airlines
Barron's 26 issues for 1,200 miles
Businessweek 50 issues for 1,600 miles
Economist 51 issues for 3,200 miles
Wall Street Journal 254 issues for 2,600 miles