electronic subscription

[simon_sluggett]

Anyone signed up for the electronic version of their fave yachting mag? Why does it cost the same as paper version? It saves on printing and distribution costs and its produced electronically for printing anyway so it cant be too much work to make it downloadable. Somehow I think I would miss pulling out old copies from the bottom of the wardrobe and re-reading them when the gales are a blowin' hard.

 

[Talbot]

Asked the same question at the boat show - lots of embarrassed looks, but no viable explanation other than gouging as much money as possible.

 

[FWB]

I started a thread on this a while ago, but cant find it now. Basically I and others found the reader useless. It was not possible to make the print large enough to read. I contacted IPC and Dan Foley replied saying that it would be improved. It is still the same.

 

[sarabande]

As with all these electronic forms of reading, I would miss the tactile presence of paper text and picture, and above all the ability to read a current article without having a laptop fired up first.

I suggest that, like some other magazines, the YBW team should produce an annual CD with the previous year's issues in a readable, searchable format.

With a commercial linkup, IPC could send out the CD for free as an incentive for renewing or starting a subscription, and we could then re-cycle the previous year's copies, saving shelf space, dusting, etc.

This is done by several R**ds publications to very good effect.

I have about 15 linear ft of shelf space dedicated to PBO from Issue 1 to about 15 years ago, and would be happy to swap them for a set of CDs, taking up a hundredth of the space..

 

[fireball]

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I suggest that, like some other magazines, the YBW team should produce an annual CD with the previous year's issues in a readable, searchable format.

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That is a superb suggestion ... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[steveallan]

They would not want to lose the income from their copy service.

 

[Malish]

With the current service is there the opportunity to save the electronic copy as say a PDF file? not that I would of course because that would mean that I could circulate it on to others