On Friday, November 25, 2011 3:44 PM, "Darren Addy" <[email protected]> wrote: > It does take nearly 24 hours to get your voucher (and mine also went > to Gmail spam folder). > > I got PC Magazine as my trial magazine and then with my $25 gift card > opted for: > Outdoor Photographer ($7.50) > Popular Photography ($7.50) > and the book > 50 Photo Projects (7.98) > > Thanks again to Brian for sharing the info on this offer with the group! >
Glad you enjoyed it. Having used Zinio for a few days now, I can say it seriously sucks. The magazines look good in the Zinio reader but it's a slow and jerky bit of software. The main issue, though is that it's a proprietary system and there's no way (that I've found - and I've been looking!) to convert the magazines into a more friendly format (pdf or epub). The worst feature is printing. Some magazines will only allow printing of the currently open two page spread and it seems that trying to print to a PDF driver has been disabled in the reader, although I managed to get the open source 'PDF Creator' to work occasionally but not reliably. *ALL* pages, whether hard copy or PDF, have a watermark placed on the printed output. Will I be continuing my magazine subscriptions after the current ones run out? Not bloody likely! I notice that there's an Australian Photo Magazine as one of the publications offered and, as I buy the hard copy occasionally, I may get the electronic version instead. But that will be about it. If anyone missed my original post and wants to check out the offer, here are the details again.... This article explains how to go about getting the $25 voucher: http://dottech.org/freebies/24490/get-25-worth-of-magazine-subscriptions-for-free-from-zinio-you-pick-which-mags-no-credit-card-required/ A couple of points - You need to register with Zinio but you don't have to give any credit card details unless you intend to spend more than $25. You get two emails from Zinio - the first is a standard welcome message and the second gives the gift voucher code. The second one may not come immediately and (especially if you use Gmail) it's likely to go into your spam folder (mine did). There are a couple of good deals at present: 11 issues of Outdoor Photographer for $US7.50; 12 issues of Shutterbug for $US6.75 and 12 issues of Popular Photographer for $US7.50. If you take up all three of those, there will still be a few bucks left out of the gift voucher. If you aren't in North America, you can still get the deal by clicking on the Flag at the top right of the Zinio page and selecting the North America option (see the comments section of the above mentioned link for details on this). Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
