Update for Wrestling Observer Newsletter print & online subscribers

What print subscribers need to know

The WON will continue as an online publication and, for the vast majority of subscribers, there will be no real changes other than some new positive ways in which information will be put on the website.

For those of you who are print subscribers, your time left will be transferred over automatically to an online subscription for the time remaining. In the case of overseas subscribers, that will be for a longer time based on the higher price you have paid. Essentially, you will be getting more for the same price, getting the Observers a week or so earlier than you had been, plus access to all the archives of issues dating back to 1991 and all podcasts since the start of the site.

For those who subscribed because they liked the issues being printed and would read it that way rather than on a computer screen, the new format, which will be available for the first time for all website subscribers, will be formatted very similarly to the print edition. You will also be able to print them out from the website.

Another change is that many Observer stories will be put up exclusively for all subscribers during the week rather than all on Friday. The Friday WON will have those stories and in many cases, what I’d call the official “record” would still be released on Fridays with updates through press time. Many of the key stories are pretty much completed earlier in the week, but many would still be updated before going into the final version of the WON released on Friday mornings.

For those who for whatever reason don’t want the change to an online subscription, you will get the remainder of your subscription money refunded. Obviously, I’m hoping that number is small. I just want the print subscribers to know how much I appreciate your support for so long and it is that loyalty that kept me from making the change that, from a business standpoint, should have been made some time ago.

For all print subscribers, please contact Tony Leder who will implement your new online subscription or cancel if that is what you prefer.

Everyone transferring over is getting far more for their money, you can still print the issues out, and they will look basically identical. Again, for the print subscribers that this affects the most, thank you for, what in most cases, is for decades of support and hopefully for many more years to come.