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Word online edition?
Posted by mdavies27 on 21 February 2011 - 1:44pm.
I know the answer may be obvious with Adobe not available on apple products, but after receiving Mr Hepworths email yesterday I was wondering if it's possible to view the online version of The Word on an ipad or is it strictly for Pc's?
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The e-dition
It's strictly for everything apart from the iPad, which doesn't support flash.
I subscribe to the mag
but have never recieved a mail with the online edition? Do I need to sign up for it?
If the subscription company has your e-mail address
Then you're being sent the link each month. You can check that they do have it by logging in at https://word.subscribeonline.co.uk/login
Thanks Fraser
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Follow-up question Sir
So will there be a time when the on-line edish become available for subscription (i.e. by non-print recipients)? I don't think I'll ever be able to justify a print sub again - it's 80 quid to Australia - but on-line for a tad less is a different proposition altogether, yessiree Bob!
It's possible
It's something we're considering, but I can't be any more precise than that!
Thanks Fraser
This up should swing it!
Overseas subscriptions can be frustrating
I once had other UK-based publications coming to me in Canada, but there was always a few issues per year that either never arrived or appeared to have been opened up and pawed over (either by customs or by a postie who needed something to read on their loo break). The CD would never survive the trip!
some sort of e-subscription would be great
I have an android phone that does support flash but the very pretty presentation of the Word online edition is virtually unreadable on the small screen. It is great on a PC and I am sure an android tablet would be nice. I have however never read any content of it on my computer as I do not find it a comfortable enough to relax an read the mag at my desk.
I did an experiment and scanned a few pages into a pdf and this presented very nicely in several book reader apps on iphone, ipad and android. A pdf from the original printer proofs would be an even higher resolution than a home scan and a pleasure to read.
I am also going to find it hard to justify my renewal for international delivery and I am sure that even with the Apple gouging commission you could save all of that with less printing and no postage.
an e-Word would not be the same as fondling the wonderfully presented paper copy but maybe we have to let that go sooner rather than later.
I understand from other posts that convincing the record companies to let you distribute the "Now Hear This" tracks other than on CD would also be a challenge for you.
Paste download
I was the same with Paste. I couldn't justify to huge overseas postage rates but am happy to pay 99c a month to download it - not that I have to do that very often these days!
akin to CD liner notes
surely reading an online mag via iphone will require a magifying glass
80 quid might seem steep but if you work it out like I did.....
80 quid converts to 128 Aussie (as I write) which divided by 12 equals about 10.50 Aussie per issue which is what you would pay for a three month old issue in Australia.
Plus it gets delivered to your door in a special cover.
And cheap at the price
I'm Australian, and my Word subscription is money I justify easily to myself each time I renew. There's a joy in the quality and portability of the printed copy.
I can't imagine choosing an online copy over a paper copy. And I speak as a Kindle owner who enjoys reading ebooks; although I do still buy paper books as well.
If I have to skip buying some beers to be able to pay for The Word, that's something I'll do.
Adobe on Apple
As far as I understand it, it's only Flash that's not available on Macs. I'm not sure that Apple computers would have the standing that they currently have in the graphic community without Photoshop.
Flash
Works fine on Macs - it just doesn't work on the iPad/iPhone.
Not seen the flash stuff
I'm a subscriber but I don't seem to get the mail - I'll have to check my details.
Apple's app licensing now no longer prohibits cross compilation of Flash arifacts for iOS use, so it might be a possibility to explore an app container to deliver the repuropsed content. I keep meaning to get a dev account but never get the time to explore.
For certain meanings of the word Fine.
On this here early model MacBook Pro the Flash plug-in is bloody awful. It slows the machine down, leaks memory like a sieve, and has a tendency to crash the browser at random intervals. Then there's the excessive disk activity that happens at random intervals.
Installing a Flash blocker such as Click-to-Flash fixes most of the problems, but even then I sometimes have to restart Safari after viewing Flash content as the system becomes unstable.
It may be due to Flash running as a part of Safari on 32-bit Macs. On later 64-bit models Flash is sandboxed, and therefore runs a bit better. Even so, no software should really behave like this.
Unfortunately
Apple's latest wheeze is to insist that any iPad content must be available through the App Store, with a mandatory 30% of the transaction going to Apple.
A DRM'd PDF
(or non-DRM if you like) could be made available for subscription, I suppose.
Reading that on a tablet would be easy as the PDF could be quite happily be dragged into iTunes and synced to an iPad. No iTunes store needed there and a micro payment charging system could probably work through PayPal.
Problem is that
PDF is arguably the worst format for reading on-screen.
I for one
would certainly argue that
Hmmmm
Courtesy of a thrusting Massive member (!) I've just been given a sneak look at the online mag - it is a thing of beauty, is it not? One can't help seeing this as the inevitably dominant format of the near future, esp as we oldies with a fetish for words-on-paper get pushed to the, er, margins.
I'd convinced myself the Word was declining but I think it was the grubby furtiveness of thumbing through 3-month old issues in the newsagent's that set me against it.
So I'm going to re-subscribe. As stated above, it's only 80 quid, which is about 16 aussie cents at the current FX rate.
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