Exact Editions: The Future of Magazines?

I’ve finally discovered the future of magazines:  exact copies of print magazines available online by subscription.  With a password, I can read my favorite magazine from anywhere in the world, and I can have continual access to past issues.

I love Great Britain’s PC Utilities Magazine.  But getting the issues has been a problem as I move back and forth between two residences in different parts of the world.  I’ve even encountered problems with Mexican customs, which sometimes wants a fee since the magazine comes packaged with a DVD full of computer programs.

But no longer.  I just purchased a one-year online subscription via Exact Editions in the UK.  The subscription costs noticeably less than the print edition.  As a bonus, I get access to the past 20 issues, as well as to all of the 1000’s of software programs it has offered on its DVD’s.  While I’ve already got all of those issues in print editions, I now don’t need to carry them from residence to residence — and I can let the magazine’s search facility to find what I’m looking for, a major time-saver.

Exact Editions represents quite a number of UK-based magazines, several of which will appeal to writers.

Now that I’ve broken through to online magazines, I may next subscribe to the online edition of PC World and Publisher’s Weekly.  I’m delirious.

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    Comment by
    lalitr
    11 Feb 2009

    I can't wait for them to come with color screens for use on devices like the kindle or the plastic logic reader…then this magazine issue could be settled once and for all…
    I can see myself being a regular subscriber for sure then…wonder if editions are available on the kindle?…
    Great blog by the way!

    Comment by
    tomcolvin
    11 Feb 2009

    I agree, when color arrives on ebook readers, we will have reached the real
    tipping point.

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