You may wonder why it takes so long for your first issue arrive. Magazine subscriptions ordered from any source, including directly from the publisher will take from 4-14 weeks to begin arriving at your home. The reason is fairly simple but unavoidable. In order to save on costs, the number of magazines printed by a publisher for a certain month's issue is based on the current number of their subscribers. Depending on the frequency of the delivery of a magazine, publishers can print an issue up to three months in advance so they base the number of magazines to be printed, say for instance for the December Issue, on the number of subscribers they have in September. So, if you order your subscription in November, the December issue has likely already been printed and the publisher does not plan to print any more, but you will be counted among subscribers when they print the March Issue in January.