EW is among the magazines who stopped paying all but a few of their writers last year. Now they want people to pay to read what they aren't paying to have written? It isn't as if I had any respect left for Entertainment Weekly, but this dumbass decision puts their respect level in negative numbers.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Site-by-site, beginning with *Entertainment Weekly*... >> >> MediaPost >> <http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/250895/time-inc-rolls-out-paid-content-ewcom-first-t.html> >> (link) >> > > Best of luck to them. I will, however, share this work around I found a > few months ago. I was looking around my library's website and found that > they now have what they call an eNewstand. They subscribe to magazines > through a vender called Zinio. Zinio scans print magazines, ad pages and > all, and inserts hyperlinks to URLs in stories and ads and also "continued > on page..." notes when a story jumps to the rear pages. To download and > read these magazines you need an app called Zinio for Libraries (there is a > generic Zinio app, but that's for subscriptions you buy from their website). > > My local library, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, subscribes to over > 100 magazines including the major ones. I just checked and they do not have > the Time, Inc magazines so a reader would have to make do with Newsweek, > The Economist, The Atlantic, etc. There is no limit on the number of issues > you can download and no time limit. I assume that Time, Inc will exempt > links from social media from their reading limit like other media companies > do, but if I see a story in a Time, Inc property and find I'm cut off by > the pay wall I know where else to go. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
