Online Digital Magazines vs Old School Prints

November 19th, 2007 Submitted by: Adrian

I was at an RC Helicopter Magazine site today trying to find out more details as to how to subscribe for the print versions but unfortunately they do not deliver to Malaysia. I would have hooked up right away if I was in USA or CANADA because the price was cheap at USD24.99 or so for 12 issues compared to RM30.00 or more per issue when bought locally at the newstands. That’s like USD105.00 Rediculous right?

Anyway the magazine said it was hooked up with Zinio and the first copy of their online version would be available in Jan 2008! That’s soon enough for me so I signed up for an account and downloaded their free offline reader and started to download some magazines to test it out. I would say the entire reading experience is somewhat. Nothing feels better than holding a hardcopy but it’s also comforting to know that I can carry the e-version of my magazines wherever I carry my notebook/pc. To make it appealing, the price is insane for some magazines at USD16.00 for 12 issues (on average). And you know what the interesting thing is? You can subscribe to PLAYBOY or PENTHOUSE at only USD19.97  for 12 issues! Who says you can’t get Playboy in Malaysia? haha.

I can’t wait to see how much the copies of the RC Heli magazine is… if it’s cheap enough.. I’ll definitely subscribe to it!

Check it out at: http://www.zinio.com

COMMENT ADDED 28 Dec 2008: I finally subscribed to RC HELI on zinio for approx USD25.00 about a week ago.  As of early this week, I have already read The Jan and Feb 2008 issue which was sent to my Zinio Reader. Talk about getting the issues early! I can’t wait till the March 2008 edition. The issues are simply great. I do wonder when it will be released. It’ll definitely be earlier than the hardcopy will be hitting the shelves here in Malaysia. Reading the E-Version of the magazine is definitely different than bringing a hardcopy of the magazine to the toilet with you. A bit of getting used to but that’s easily achieved. The current Zinio reader is easy and friendly to use. 

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