If they signed up per year, yes.<p>But their subscription terms are '$5 per week'.<p>So, unless I'm completely uninformed about consumer law, that means they have to do recurring billing on a weekly schedule charging $5 each time the subscription renews, and customers can cancel at any one point in time.<p>See here:<p><a href="http://www.newsday.com/services/7.387?registration=true&#38;online=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsday.com/services/7.387?registration=true&#38;...</a><p>Any two bit webmaster running a site with a subscription model would be able to tell you some of the downsides of that registration page and why you really don't want to do this (the $5 / week charge) but that's their problem.<p>So, what they've grossed is the number of subscribers times the number of weeks, once they've figured out their 'life cycle' they can project to future earnings.<p>People do not as a rule fork over a years subscription in advance, another truth of online recurring billing. That's a great way to have to refund <i>all</i> of the money if the customer is not 100% satisfied during the run of the subscription.<p>So, the 'middle ground' is monthly billing, with in case of a dispute a maximum 3 month refund.<p>I also love their 'opt-out' for spam checkbox (check to opt-out, default 'unchecked'), and the fact that they (optionally) ask you to fill out your gender and birth date.<p>&#62; " Please check this box if you prefer not to be emailed "<p>The marketing joys of double negatives.