Not a joke; it's a project for Newspaper Club (http://www.newspaperclub.co.uk/). There may be a PDF version once the costs of the print run have been covered.
Charge for the pdf, then, if money is the issue. What's the reason behind newspaper-only?
Being paper only is genius. If postage wasn't such a barrier I'd buy one.
$3 postage is a barrier? Try living in Australia :-)