Magazines are great. There are at least a dozen about every subject known to man. They're great to read casually, to clip stories and ideas from or to save and catalog like books. The only problem with that last one is storage. It's never a good look to have piles of magazines stacked around your space. We've managed to make storing music and documents in your home a thing of the past with digital innovations. Now there's a site that lets you read, buy, subscribe to and store magazines online. Meet Coverleaf.com...
CoverLeaf.com is Like iTunes for Magazine Issues
On Monday, Texterity announced its new digital-magazine service, which allows you to access print magazines online at Coverleaf.com.
On the Web site, you can browse through categories of magazines, pick one off of the digital shelf, preview it for free, or pay to instantly see its entire contents. The magazines' digital layouts look very much like the print originals. You then can subscribe to either a print or digital version of a magazine, or even buy a single copy of any issue digitally (or you can have it mailed to you the traditional way).
Coverleaf is a great—and seemingly overdue—idea that offers avid magazine readers a Web-based place where they can read and manage their subscriptions conveniently without a huge bookshelf or lots of storage space.
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Services like MagHound and Zinio offer similar functionality.
I like the overall concept, but there's something flat about reading a magazine online. What'd be great is if subscribing to the physical mag gave you access to a digital version that allowed for web clipping, etc.
Also: none of these online magazine readers offer much worth reading (to me). If Harper's, The New Yorker and National Geographic were to get on board, that'd be something!
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DCE: We hear you, and that's actually another feature of the Coverleaf service. Besides selling single-copy digital editions and digital subscriptions of our magazines, Coverleaf does also provide free digital companion subscriptions for print subscribers. So if you currently are a subscriber to the print edition of any magazine in the Coverleaf service, all you have to do is register on the site to get your free digital editions, with the features you want like clipping, sharing, and saving.
And we're adding new titles frequently, so if you don't see the magazines you're most interested on Coverleaf.com right now, check back soon as our collection is rapidly growing.
Thanks for checking us out!
Bruce Stewart
Editor, Coverleaf Blog
http://blog.coverleaf.com
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