Digital issues

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

No they are missing, I'll e-mail Kate and see if she can add them to the others

[Kenneth EastParticipant @kennetheast82082]

I have been purchasing MEW at the news stand for the past 3-4 years. On the whole, I've found it to be a wonderful magazine.

Recently, I decided to purchase a digital subscription. Prior to doing so, I went to the magazine's site and looked at the sample magazine located in 'Extras'. The quality is appalling, bordering on unreadable. A quick glance through the forums yields a lengthy list of complaints against the digital version, with some readers even saying that they've gone so far as to scan their own physical copies. This all leads me to believe that what I saw is as good as it gets. Can someone either confirm that perception or set me straight?

There is no print option in the reader, and printing via the standard browser print function only yields blank pages. Is this intentional? If the forums are accurate, it seems that after purchasing a digital subscription, one must wait for some number of days for account information to be delivered by post. Really? In 2013?

This all prompted me to go and download a few issues in PDF format from a torrent. While not perfect, they are remarkably good. They are certainly good enough. And an order of magnitude better than what I see in the sample issue on the MEW site.

Perhaps I have it all wrong; if so, someone please correct me, as I'd really like to purchase the digital edition. Otherwise, I'll have to go away thinking that this is the most convoluted, destined to fail, epub strategy I've ever seen. It is nothing less than insanity — to intentionally produce a deficient digital product (due to fears of piracy, I assume) that is both hard to purchase and difficult to use. Of course, the magazine's owners are free to do as they wish. I sincerely hope that they profit well from all the effort they've put into the magazine and all the value that they've brought to their readers — I guess that's why I'm both saddened and shocked by what I've seen with the digital edition.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Just had a look at the sample mag and its not one of the better ones, being No 139 it may have been scanned and not directly downloaded.

 

The later issues accessed from the website are better but if you subscribe and view the new issues via Pocketmags and its silverlight viewer they are clearer still and all drawings can be read without problems.

You can print individual pages via the archive by first clicking on the page zoom in and a "print page " tab will show at the top. You can also print the page from pocketmags with a simple tab at the bottom of the screen, you also get a handy thumbnail bar at the bottom so you can quickly find the page you want. Click the image below which is a screen capture from the current ME and see if its better than MEW139.

 

J

Edited By JasonB on 08/10/2013 19:27:49

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

4274 & 4275 are now on Kate's list but it won't be for a while as the updating of all the other MTM sites takes priority. Is there a specific article that you wanted Thomas?

J

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Posted by JasonB on 09/10/2013 16:09:30:

4274 & 4275 are now on Kate's list but it won't be for a while as the updating of all the other MTM sites takes priority. Is there a specific article that you wanted Thomas?

J

Not having any gripe with you Jason however, I find the above statement says it all.

It seems MTM are treating ME and MEW as 'a poor relation' . Certainly in terms of response from the publisher in respect of any issues ( missing info from The 'Best of' 3 – Lynx build is a case in point)

How can any site take priority over another when there is specific detail missing which subscribers are paying for!!!

Just another nail in the coffin!!!

Seems to me that MTM artete only interested in getting your money, then after that ?????????????

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

> 4274 & 4275 are now on Kate's list but it won't be for a while as the updating of all the other MTM sites takes priority.

Be fair – this site was only updated last week!

Neil

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Nicks post makes interesting reading and DC1's reply a little further down Probably before Kates time.

 

Edited By JasonB on 09/10/2013 19:49:09

[thomas ellisonParticipant @thomasellison42765]

Hi David: Is it possible to get a better copy of the drawing shown in Issue #4286, page 568, lower right hand corner? The drawing cannot be read.

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