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Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-print-it-out-like-my-dad-would dept.

Mr_Perl writes "Linux Journal sent out an email to subscribers today announcing that they are going 100% digital. Subscribers signed on for a paper version of the journal, and now have been switched to an electronic version, apparently at the exact same subscription rate. No news yet on why they did it, and no sign of any offers to reimburse unused subscriptions for subscribers who are disappointed."

2 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I don't like digital-only periodical subs by MacTO · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA notes that you can download a PDF version of the periodical, which means that you can keep the issues indefinitely.

    So what it really comes down to is a business decision, and they think that they'd be better off in an all digital format. And I think that the only people who have the right to complain about that are the ones who are going to end up with their remaining print subscriptions transitioned to digital (because that sure ain't what they asked for).

  2. Re:I don't like digital-only periodical subs by uniquegeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Keep them indefinitely? You mean continually backing them up to different mediums and hoping the medium doesn't die, converting the pdf to something else if pdf comes to a point of dying, hoping for backwards compatibility of readers (and ideally testing many of the pdfs each time the version or software package changes)...

    The effort involved with keeping magazines, in most instances, is carting the box around if you move. That, and keeping a pet bird away from it, if you happen to have one.