[Publib] Magazines - Digital Editions

[Christopher Baker]

Hello,

I'm very happy to find this list, for one very specific reason mentioned in the message below by Jeanette M. Piquet posted earlier in December. I am facing the problem of ensuring continued access to PC Magazine for 14 branches each of which has an individual subscription; however, digital issues can only be accessed with an email address and password. As I understand it, each email address can be linked to 20 terminals for reading the digital issue. As Jeanette notes, the publisher and company don't seem to have many answers for libraries. I was wondering what others are doing as the first digital edition of PC Magazine drops next month. We have online, full-text access through EBSCOhost, etc. but I've seen a sample digital edition and it is literally the magazine (ads and all) in one document. Thanks!

Hi.  Since Christian Science Monitor and PC Magazine are going to stop
publishing in paper and going only digital, I am wondering how other public
libraries are planning on handling these two publications - and others as
this trend snowballs.  PC Magazine readers we can pretty much assume are
going to be more amenable to accessing it on line - but I am expecting some
objections from Christian Science Monitor readers.  As of now we are
thinking we are thinking we may provide the link to the digital version
directly from our catalogs to make the publications as accessible as
possible.  But at this point we don't know if it will be accessible to
multiple users at one time, if it will require a password,.



The publishers don't seem to have many answers that can help us plan.  Their
main concern is obviously individual subscribers.  I am wondering if others
in the library world are making plans for this.


Christopher Baker
Materials Selection Specialist
Gwinnett County Public Library
1001 Lawrenceville Hwy
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
770-822-5348
cbaker at gwinnettpl.org



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