We’ve turned one of our back issues into an interactive, surgically enchanced “online magazine”. And we’re giving you the opportunity to try it for size for FREE…
Read Issue 51 and let us know what you think.
(You need Adobe Flash 7 or higher installed)
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They won’t be free but they will be tied in to new features on the website. But they will be much cheaper than the print copies and access to them will include our entire digital back catalog so as we produce more mags it becomes better value 🙂
Nice idea but was a bit awkward on a small screen (netbook). Full screen mode would help, without the space wasted by title bars the actual mag could be twice as big. Then I should be able to read it without zooming. Even better would be a non-typeset (variable page length) version with adjustable font size, but that could be too hard?
Zoom mode could do with a more convenient way of paging, eg. page up, page down keys and context menus.
Is there a pdf version of the same magazine for comparison? I’m thinking of an electronic subscription but would like to see how readable it is.
Have to play with this soon – I’m one of the overseas subscribers so I have PDF subscription at the moment becasue I agree that the extra $$ of postage and the time it then takes to get here aren’t worth the extra expense to me; extras sound fun too!
extras do sound great just hope they don’t alienate the paper mag buyers who are actually spending more money and not getting extras.
Why can’t you put the entire back catalogue on-line as a sweetener for those who take up a ‘digital subscription’?
And why can’t an issue be free six months after the print copy comes out? That’s the model that ‘Decline’ are using in the US I believe.
“Why can’t you put the entire back catalogue on-line as a sweetener for those who take up a ‘digital subscription’?”
they do
OOOO, it’s just like reading the special offers at Netto.