Electronic Subscription

One of the most remarkable benefits of Ipad ownership is the ability to get your print subscriptions in electronic form.

Print Mags have Free Electronic Versions for their Subscribers
 
Time magazine is always with you whenever your with my Ipad. After jumping through the hoops of print subscription verification, the latest issue is downloaded to the Ipad and available. The publishers have included the electronic subscription into the cost of the print one.  One week last month the Time magazine did not come in the mailbox. It never came in print form. I didn't miss an issue as I had downloaded it and could read each page including all the advertisements.

Sue loves her People subscription. It comes each Thursday. The electronic download through the web to the Ipad comes at the same time.  It is often delayed through the post office.

Last night I tapped into Sunset magazine's electronic subscription. It was a little harder to substantiate my print subscription because it needed the code from the mailing label. My magazine had come in a plastic bag. After putting in my complete address, and my email address their side validated my subscription.

Electronic Versions bring added Benefits

The electronic subscription offers many benefits that the print subscription does not. There are always added features to the electronic version that are not in the print version. Electronic ink is much cheaper than print ink, so each of these subscriptions can and do offer more depth in feature articles. Some are pretty amazing.

 Time

In a recent Time magazine when the cover is selected by the viewer, the whole screen shakes and you hear this sound of the hurricane as it approaches.

Time has video bonus coverage throughout its issues. As you read the articles the reader can touch the blocks and interviews with news makers referenced in the article download and play. The electronic version my be read in the similar way the print version works as well. Some of the sidebars on the articles are pretty interesting. In the print version these areas as shaded side articles that relate the the main article. In the electronic version, these open up and become as big as the full page they often accompany.

People

People magazine is full of these additions. Extra red carpet, fashion coverage is always added to the big events with People's electronic subscription. I find the last page on each People electronic magazine interesting. It is a breakout of 8 cover shots of their magazine through the years. Represented as dots with the number in them, the reader can travel back to see what was presented last year on the cover, 5 years, 10 years and 15 and 20 years ago. The covers are revealing in how the magazine and its readership has changed over the years.  People magazine has some additional interviews that are available directly from the their pages to the Ipads that you would view them on on.

Sunset

My latest electronic magazine download is Sunset. It is beautiful on the retina display. I like that it is also included free with the print subscription.

The main benefit for the reader is the collection of all the versions into the electronic version. Sunset prints about 5 different versions of its magazine each month. Southern California sees a very different version that Northern California. There are different gardening tips and different recipes and comments as to places that you may visit in the region. I once picked up a Sunset at my local Costco before I had a print subscription. It was the Southern California version. The gardening was all off and the restaurant reviews were for So Cal places. This would be okay if I were not looking for Nor Cal stuff.  The electronic version bridges this gap and clearly points out in the gardening section which is written for which area... the articles are from all of the versions even one it appears to be from Alaska. So Sunset is a beautiful magazine in all its flavors. The electronic reader has the benefit of seeing all of it.

Have a great Day..
: ) Pat