There certainly appears to be problems at the magazine because every now and then a thread pops up about this.
I subscribed for the first time last May at the BCA Nationals. The timely delivery of my issues have been spotty at best.
The subscription was under $20 as I recall, and mainly I signed up because I liked the T-shirt they were giving away. The first few pages of instruction are good but certainly it's not much that you can't find on the internet somewhere. It seems to me most of the magazine is devoted to tournament results that I really couldn't care less about. Seriously, I'm not terribly interested in who walked away with the $75 first place money in the monthly "D" and under 8 Ball event in Podunk. The coverage of the big events is old news by the time I get the magazine, even if it does come on time (of course, this is more or less true of any hard-paper publication).