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Q. Will you create an interactive HTML 5/Ubuntu/Android/iOS/Windows
8 appfor digital magazine delivery?
A. We will get our magazine onto digital storefronts straight away.
And we have ambitious plans for our own app - one where our community
becomes part of the editorial. But to start with, we need to focus on
getting our new magazine out of our heads and into your hands. We’ll
then be able to invest in our other ideas.
We expect to be in the shops in the uk in February 2014 (and we'll ship physical or digital copies to the rest of the world then). We hope to be in newsagents and book stores world wide not long after that, but it will depend on our distributors.
The price is the same, but for a different period.
The digital subscription is 35ukp for 12 months, and UK physical subscription is also 35ukp but only covers 6 months.
[1] http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...
This seems to be similar to that, with the huge difference that the article is then "freed" totally after 9 months. Great idea, I'll sign up for this.
It's a really refreshing approach and they are committed to giving back to the FOSS community from the profits generated by it. I also really like that they plan to release the content for other uses after a brief embargo.
Vaguely related: A thought I've been having lately is that instead of micro payments being a direct monetary thing, why not team up with ISPs, hosting providers, etc, and have an organization a "points" system similar to loyalty programs. Points can then be used to provide a discounts on hosting and bandwidth, and distributed both individually by people and by projects to contributors. This helps reduce some of the friction in transactions...
(I used to freelance for Future years ago, and the standing joke was that, at the time, all their magazines were "something-or-other Format". When they launched a cross-stitch magazine, we were greatly disappointed it wasn't called Cross-Stitch Format.)