Just happened to find the following at byo.com over the weekend when I was looking for something. I did not receive any letter they claim they mailed in December 2024. Here is the info from the BYO website.
How do I claim my BYO+ membership for the remainder of my print subscription term?
All active BYO print subscribers with issues still remaining to be served in 2025 have been already set up with a BYO+ membership for the remainder of your term with new issues available every other month in two different digital formats in addition to the other membership benefits. How you claim your new BYO+ membership depends on if you already have an existing online account at BYO.com.
A. If you already have a BYO.com account (by ordering your print subscription through our website) then just log into your account and you’ve already been switched over to a BYO+ membership for the remainder of your term.
B. If you do not already have an existing online account at BYO.com you need to claim your new BYO+ membership good for the remainder of your print subscription term. To set up your online account with your email and a password to log in for your special access. Here’s how you do it.
Go to byo.com/account-lookup/
You will see two boxes to pull up your new paid BYO+ membership.
In the Account Number box, enter the number provided in the mailed letter sent to you in December
In the Zip Code box, enter your main zip code, but without the “plus four”. If you have a Canadian postal code please include any space as normal.
Follow the remaining prompts including setting up your log in password.
Questions? Email us at: byo@byo.com
Why End Your Print Format?
The decision to end printing our magazine starting with the 2025 issues was not made lightly. All of us at BYO love print magazines with half our staff working on BYO print publications for over 25 years. But over the last several months of 2024 it has become clear the economics of continuing to print BYO magazine are simply not sustainable. Our postage and paper costs almost doubled in the last five years and print industry experts say this trend will only continue. The escalating costs come as print subscription revenue is in decline, the newsstand industry for a publication like BYO has essentially collapsed, and print-based advertising revenue has dramatically eroded. So we were faced with decreased print revenues and increased production and delivery costs all at once. We already raised our print subscription prices to the limit of what we feel homebrewers will spend annually so that was not an option to bring in more money.
We’ve always said we are in the homebrew content business and not the paper and ink business. And if we continued to print our magazines in the face of collapsing print revenues and spiking print-related costs, it puts BYO’s future overall as a business in jeopardy. As a result, we opted instead to make the hard decision to end our print format so we can continue to serve the homebrewing community for years to come with more content and events. To ignore the reality of the grim print financial landscape BYO faces would have been irresponsible.
If you had an active BYO print subscription at the end of 2024, you’ll be given full credit for all the remaining print issues owed to you in your account with an equal amount of future time as a BYO+ member right up until what would have been your print expire date. And you’ll continue to be able to read new issues of BYO published in our bi-monthly schedule in the magazine layout of our new fully linked flipbook (that you can also download as a PDF for offline reading) or as individual webpage articles and recipes. Plus online access to 30 years of homebrewing content.
Thank you for your continued support as we look to keep helping you make great beer at home.