• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

sent with my portable VIC-20

Anonymous

The cover photos are included in the ebook versions and we also put them on the web. Right now, we would be unable to sell electronic subscriptions directly without adversely affecting our Kindle terms. But we are able to sell ebooks this way and the annual volumes (the most recent of which just came out in June) can be gotten from us directly as well as through various other platforms and services.

I have a lifetime subscription to the print edition. Will I be entitled to electronic copies of the magazine, or PDFs? Sometimes it's not convenient to get the magazine via mail.

Max

Right now, we're treating everything as separate items, as we're still pretty much in our infancy on the whole electronic publishing project. We're still encountering limitations on certain features we'd like to be able to offer through the Kindle and Nook. We do expect this to change and for all sorts of enhancements to pop up in the future. Right now, though, we're working our fingers to the bone to ensure that all of this is working properly and that we get into a good workflow with every issue. Stay tuned.

I was stoked when I saw I could buy the Autumn 2010 edition for the Kindle (in my case the Kindle app on my iPad). What a treat - about time. So, of course, when the Spring issue came out, I immediately went to snatch it up. But what I found varied from mildly to grossly disturbing:

* The iPad is now an excluded device.

* The price increased over 50% for the single issue

* The following disclaimer is all over the page: "Your name, billing address, and order information will be shared with the publisher."

I guess I will just continue to seek out local dead tree copies! Boo.

Mark

We can't tell you how frustrating all of this has been from our perspective. We're dealing with companies that want to exclude each other and resort to all sorts of lame tactics in the process. One thing that we need to make very clear is that none of this is our doing and we're constantly battling these policies. It's especially annoying when these companies imply that we approve of their practices, and then people give us negative ratings as a result. We can say with assurance that we most definitely do not get any names or addresses from Kindle, despite the above statement that's displayed on the Kindle store. As for the price going up, that is actually because you're buying an individual issue instead of a subscription. The fact that you're not able to get a subscription on an iPad is a problem that's on the top of our list of things to get changed. You can help us achieve this change by complaining to those who make the policies.

Hi guys,

I'm really glad that your magazine is now available on Kindle, especially considering that it seems to have disappeared from Chapters stores in Canada for some reason. Was very refreshing to read it again after missing a couple of issues. Unfortunately, it looks like I am not getting any images (cover photo, payphones) on my Kindle DX, despite reading about them loading for other people in the e-feedback section. Not sure if this is a limitation of the DX model or just a part of Amazon's crazy content limitation for people living 20 minutes north of the border. Another thing I noticed is that HTML tags do not display in articles (for example, embedded JavaScript file references in the XSS section of Micah Lee's article in 28:1), probably need to employ predefined character entity references there. Which makes me wonder if it actually tried to load that .js file in the background (like the Sudoku "ebooks") and makes me wish DX had WiFi so I could sniff for that, but I digress. Thanks for the great content in a rare these days format and I'm looking forward to bigger, better Kindle editions in the future.

Alex W

We're not aware of specific issues with the DX, nor content limitation in Canada. We'd like to hear from others so we can compare results. Amazon is having weird issues with in tags, probably because of some overzealous security