Put magazines on-line using Adobe Acrobat or some other method for online subscriptions. Is anyone doing this? Personally speaking, if websites associated with magazines I read(audio/video, gamer, computer) would duplicate their magazine in Acrobat, I would sign-up and pay for a subscription just like I would for a paper magazine subscription. The thing I hate about magazines is all the paper used. Is this really necessary in this day and age? From what I have seen, websites associated with magazines tend to only put up certain articles from monthly issues. Some even trim down the article for the web. It would cost peanuts(almost) to allocate a website, set up a subscription service, put mags in Acrobat, and....away we go. We are fast approaching the idea of e-books or e-mags where you can download entire magazines and view them in your portable viewer. I don't understand why this technology is taking so long to catch on. If all the magazines got in the game and pushed harder for this, then this will take off. Instead, it seems like the hardware makers of these products have no collaboration with the authors. NO MORE WASTED PAPER!!!! It's coming...but when? I can't wait to get out of this paper consumation era. Trees deserve to live. We need a wood substitute or synthetic for building houses, too. At least...that is what the forests are telling me . I think with everyone being a reader and moving online that they would be pushing for this technology quicker than they have. If they used the kind of rigor that they do in developing gaming products, like game consoles, then this other technology would be far by now. If it's not ready, then why not put more books/mags on-line? Thoughts...anyone? Surf ------------------
Ah...the old corporate greed/prolific spread problem. Oh well...from a consumer point-of-view, it's like butter anyway. Find a way...there has to got to be another piece of technology to help out. It will come...just a matter of when?!?!?! Come to think of it...just give the damn viewing device it's own format, build in a modem to connect to the web to surf, and use it's own disc format for books/mags. It would be incompatible with PC drives and not be on the Internet...only from the publishers, resellers, etc.. If this isn't how their going, maybe they need some direction from me . ------------------ [This message has been edited by Surfguy (edited August 26, 2000).] [This message has been edited by Surfguy (edited August 26, 2000).]
I think you should write a letter to the presidents of all the main magazines out there. Just kidding. Trying to make a play off the "waste of paper" theme you had going. ------------------ I have a dream.........his name's Hakeem. DREAMer's Rocket Page
Good idea, just don't take away my books. And what would I have to look at while waiting in those awful supermarket lines. Unless you make grocery shopping online too. Or how about making magazines out of cloth? ------------------ I am so exasperated that I could expectorate.
That's like asking why doesn't the music industry put their audio online. My guess is it's because it's easier to distribute a PDF file via email than a magazine. The loss of revenue for some of these magazines if they even lose 10-20% of their sales due to people distributing their PDF versions could be catastrophic for them... probably worse than what would happen to the "music peeps". ------------------ Falk that Mo Fo!!!
