Dell magazines like Asimov's

[ballfresno]

Originally Posted by cybmole

I can't believe that folks are wiling to pay in order to endure such frustration.
Cancel your subs, tell their customer services why, and what they need to do to get your custom back, then get from *other* sources until they come to their senses.
Seems like only a boycott will get their attention.
If the authors represented are in blissful ignorance, look for a way to message them also.

Yes, I am starting to come around to this view as well. I wrote Analog about this well before Christmas and did not receive any response. I would have thought that a magazine with such a small circulation would take their few readers rather more seriously than they do.

I have been a reader for almost 40 years now; I remember, almost as if it were yesterday, picking up the June 1973 issue in a shop in Edmonton after school one day and being completely enthralled by it when I started reading it. It depresses me to think I may stop reading this magazine but it's getting to be not worth the effort. It's not as if I don't have enough to read.

It is rather ironic that an SF magazine would be unable to really get to grips with the digital age... sigh.

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by Graham

I can't try getting the March 2013 issue through Nook for PC, unfortunately, as I've just installed that and it's only for the US .com accounts.

I am using Nook for PC successfully from the UK to subscribe to Asimov's. I now have Jan, Feb and March issues downloaded to my PC and side loaded to my Kobo. Nook for PC only shows the cover for the Jan issue, and nothing for the other two, but all three have in fact downloaded to my PC hard disk.

[Graham]

The Nook March issue's now been fixed for me. It's downloading correctly now.

Graham

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

A chat conversation with technical support confirmed that Analog and Asimov's are only available for Kindle on iPad or iPod Touch and nothing else not even Kindle on iPhone.

This has now been fixed. Subscriptions to Dell Magazines (well, certainly Analog and Asimov's) can now be delivered to Kindel for iOS on iPhones, as well as on iPod Touches and iPads.

So since (though a legacy option no loner available) I can removed the DRM from books sent to my iPhone, I've cancelled my trial subscription at nook.co.uk, and I'll be keeping my Amazon one.

Especially as I've been able to get the two previous issues through Amazon as well.


The Amazon issues are HUGE. And looking more closely, it's because they also (apart from the HTML text) include massive 300dpi images of every page of the print magazine!

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Amazon issues are HUGE. And looking more closely, it's because they also (apart from the HTML text) include massive 300dpi images of every page of the print magazine!

Ouch! That hasn't been my experience with my Analog issues for Kindle...

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Ouch! That hasn't been my experience with my Analog issues for Kindle...

I don't mean that the reading experience is of bitmapped pages. The Kindle app seems to be displaying the text in the XHTML as I'd expect.

I don't know why they're there, but in the three issues of each that I have so far, the images are there, making the files 40 to 80MB in size. (The 80MB one is the double issue Jan/Feb Analog.)

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I don't mean that the reading experience is of bitmapped pages. The Kindle app seems to be displaying the text in the XHTML as I'd expect.

I don't know why they're there, but in the three issues of each that I have so far, the images are there, making the files 40 to 80MB in size. (The 80MB one is the double issue Jan/Feb Analog.)

Yeah, I understood. I meant that my Analogs are normal. April 2013 is 277.008 bytes in size...

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Yeah, I understood. I meant that my Analogs are normal. April 2013 is 277.008 bytes in size...

Fascinating. I shall try to reproduce what I found.

Ah. Found it. They have now enabled download to my Kindle as well as to iPhone (& iPad and iPod Touch). When I download it with my Kindle as the target, it comes down without the large images included, and is indeed 277,008 bytes long. For the iPhone, the issue is 47,248,088 bytes long!