... but a bit difficult to read in the bath. Or whilst I'm eating my tea...

I wonder if they'll sell Linux Magazine......

;)

... print on demand publishing is growing, this will snowball, although migration to this sort of distribution would kill the porn mag industry, surely (hence probably why they haven't pioneered this in the first place).

Our local; newspaper is next to useless, and I've oft pondered the logistics of setting up a PDF only version of a local rag, similar to a new F! magazine that is electronic format only.

An interesting development. One would hope papers could come up with some incentive ideas too, as for example sell a 2-year subscription along with a well subsidized iRex iLiad.

There already is a delivery system for this type of content and it's pretty good! http://www.zinio.com.

Asa

Copy, anyone?

Yes, that's right, the problem with magazines is you can't get them in pdf!!!!! LOL!!! Good luck with this business plan.

"83 per cent of readers reading downloaded magazines online have never purchased a printed copy."

Who are these customers that have never purchased a magazine in print? Aliens from the planet Xenon?

Or is that people tend not to buy electronic copies of magazines they already have on paper, a startling revelation?

(Yes, I know that they mean that 83 per cent of readers download issues of magazines they've never bought in print, but the original's still a very strange way of saying it.)