Since coming back to the fold a few years back, I've Boing(tm)'d between print and digital and I still can't make up my mind which I prefer.
Nothing replaces the joy of unwrapping a weekly prog and feeling those pages between your fingers. It's like that moment in Ratatouille where the food critic is taken back to warm memories of his childhood by a bowl of stew; except for me, it's memories of sitting at my Gran's house, devouring the latest prog which she'd nipped over to the newsagent and bought for me that morning.
And yet, I can't keep these things any more. They pile and pile, and we've got little enough space for all our stuff as it is. Progs and megs are just one more thing to box up and shove in a corner of the attic--except since moving house we no longer *have* a usable attic, so even that's out of the question.
Switching to digital saved me there. The collection grows but I can shove it over into the cloud, where available space per pound of money actually scales way faster than the size of the things I'm putting in it, like an ever-expanding attic. Good stuff.
Yet...it's just not the same. I can read a prog quite happily on my tablet or laptop--in fact, it's a cute game of tapping, dragging, and pinching, following the narrative around the page. It has that going for it. But it's just not the same.
I'd like the best of both worlds, but paying for two subscriptions is madness.
Can Tharg find no way to include a digital copy as part of the print subscription, or offer a preferential rate on a digital subscription for print subscribers?
I'm not the first to ask this queston, but I'd be interested in the economics of why it can't be done.
Nothing replaces the joy of unwrapping a weekly prog and feeling those pages between your fingers. It's like that moment in Ratatouille where the food critic is taken back to warm memories of his childhood by a bowl of stew; except for me, it's memories of sitting at my Gran's house, devouring the latest prog which she'd nipped over to the newsagent and bought for me that morning.
And yet, I can't keep these things any more. They pile and pile, and we've got little enough space for all our stuff as it is. Progs and megs are just one more thing to box up and shove in a corner of the attic--except since moving house we no longer *have* a usable attic, so even that's out of the question.
Switching to digital saved me there. The collection grows but I can shove it over into the cloud, where available space per pound of money actually scales way faster than the size of the things I'm putting in it, like an ever-expanding attic. Good stuff.
Yet...it's just not the same. I can read a prog quite happily on my tablet or laptop--in fact, it's a cute game of tapping, dragging, and pinching, following the narrative around the page. It has that going for it. But it's just not the same.
I'd like the best of both worlds, but paying for two subscriptions is madness.
Can Tharg find no way to include a digital copy as part of the print subscription, or offer a preferential rate on a digital subscription for print subscribers?
I'm not the first to ask this queston, but I'd be interested in the economics of why it can't be done.